From: Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:22:00 -0400
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"Andrew R. Gillett" wrote:

> I am just wondering why
> tabs are required at all, especially seeing how in most actual code it
> doesn't matter whether you indent things with tabs, spaces, or even
> nothing at all.

For the same reason a semicolon is required at the end of a line of C code.
It is a syntactical requirement of makefiles.


Charles