02 Aug 95 15:35, Bill Grimsley wrote to David Drummond:

 > This may seem like a silly question, but the indentations below are 
 > purely for readability by the programmer, are they not?

Yep.

 > IOW, presumably the source would still compile if every line
 > started at column 1, right?  I've often wondered.

Yep, Pascal doesn't care which column the code starts at.  This is also the
case with C, REXX, and Visual Basic.  COBOL is apparently quite fussy in
regards to source code formatting requirements.

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