[kenbellows]

I would think that whitespace becomes significant inside string-delimiting square brackets for the same reason that whitespace is significant inside string-delimiting quotes: whitespace characters are characters like any other. I would expect `[ abcd ]` to be different from `[abcd]` in the same way that `" abcd"` is different from `"abcd"` in languages that use quotes.

Is there something I'm missing that mitigates this intuition? Does this language (or, for that matter, the demo language you wrote for your class) ignore leading or trailing whitespace inside square brackets? What about excess whitespace between words (that is, whitespace beyond a single space or tab)? If so, if indeed leading/trailing/excess whitespace is collapsed inside of square bracket delimited strings, how would I create a string with leading or trailing whitespace or extra space between words if I wanted to?

Honest questions; don't mean to criticize, just eager to learn.

[akkartik]

Oh I see. Perhaps I misunderstood what undershirt meant by "significant whitespace". Yes, in Mu [ abcd ] is different from [abcd]. I believe that to be true about Dern as well. This is all exactly as for text inside double-quotes in C.