Empire is designed as a smart server with dumb clients. An Empire
client need to know nothing about the game. Even telnet would do. In
-fact, emp_client is litte more than a slightly specialized telnet.
+fact, emp_client is little more than a slightly specialized telnet.
In such a design, presentation is in the server, and it is designed
for human consumption. Ideally, presentation and logic are cleanly
parse' requirement
* Space is to be taken literally: a single space character. Not a
- non-empty sequence of whitespace.
+ non-empty sequence of white-space.
Semantics:
Fundamental difference to basic, machine-readable xdump: the rigid
single space between fields is replaced by the rule known from
-programming languages: whitespace (space and tab) separates tokens and
-is otherwise ignored. The space non-terminal is no longer needed.
+programming languages: white-space (space and tab) separates tokens
+and is otherwise ignored. The space non-terminal is no longer needed.
Rationale: This allows visual alignment of columns and free mixing of
space and tab characters.