On 2005-10-25 12:12:31 -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > Not needed; the following sequence removes trailing whitespace in Emacs: > > ESC-x picture-mode NL > CTL-c CTL-c > > (picture-mode cleans up trailing whitespace on exit).
What about M-x delete-trailing-whitespace? Anyway by removing trailing whitespace, one assumes that it is not significant. So, let the compiler regard it as not significant. > The problem, though, is the program behavior is affected by > something that is invisible (the trailing whitespace). Yes. > If it's an issue that different compilers handle this differently and that > the standard does not specify the behavior, the answer, I think, is to > warn when trailing whitespace affects the behavior of the program. I agree. > I think that the only case is when the last character is a \ but there > may be others. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
