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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:45:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:26:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not
> applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself

The algorithm was wrong. The correct way that “tabify” and “untabify” work 
in Emacs, for example, is to only process the leading whitespace on the 
line.