On 28 May 2009, at 21:40, J Haas wrote:
> On May 28, 1:36 pm, Rimantas Liubertas <riman... / gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Have you noticed that your post is broken into paragraphs, and those
>>> paragraphs are delimited solely by whitespace, and this does not
>>> impair readability?
>>
>> Do you know many other ways to break the text into paragraph?
>
> Yes. You could be required to type 'end' at the end of every
> paragraph. But that'd just be silly and redundant, considering that
> whitespace does a perfectly good job as a delimiter.

The only significant whitespace in paragraph delineation is a new  
line, which funnily enough is also significant white space in Ruby.  
The sentences within each paragraph are delineated with full stops and  
other punctuation marks which are themselves meaningful. Whilst we  
could probably abolish these and use indentation instead to group  
sentences into paragraphs and sub-clauses into sentences, I'm not  
currently aware of any natural language notation system which adopts  
this approach.


Ellie

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