Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:13:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
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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.