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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:34:58 -0700
From:	Dennis Yelle <dennis51 AT jps DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Endlisnis wrote:
> 
> >     What if it allowed some other visible character to work as well as a TAB,
> > like ";"?  There must be a visible character which would not break anything.
> 
> I doubt if you could find such a character; most, if not all, are
> allowed in shell commands.  ";", for example, separates multiple
> commands, and the DJGPP port of Make supports it even without a
> Unix-style shell.

Which would seem to make it the perfect synonym for TAB at
the beginning of a line in a makefile.

By the way, I believe that Microsoft make has always accepted
one or more spaces as a synonym for TAB at the beginning
of a line in a makefile.

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