In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:

The significance of whitespace still bugs me, ...

Whitespace should *not* be significant; there are no other contexts in
life in which it is. This idea is just a throwback to the days of
FORTRAN.

Ah, just remembered (because I've just been editong one), there's another
place its relevant - Makefiles. Commands after a target match have to
be TAB indented. Thats using a TAB character, not 8 spaces which you
often end up with after copy & pasting |-:

Gordon