[Pmwiki-users] An idea about white space and implementation

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi

This is just a thought I got while writing something else... it is
strictly from an implementation point of view about whitespace (WS):

     Maybe the implementation would be simplified by replacing any WS
     with a single space very early in the substitution process?

     Then Cookbooks etc could use simpler reg-exps, and bugs because
     you forgot to handle WS properly would vanish.

The drawback that I can see is that there will be a special case when
there is WS at the beginning of a line and <pre> will be output and
the WS should be kept verbatim. I don't know if much a problem this is
though.

Anyway, just a thought... 

/Christian

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