On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:20:47AM -0700, Keshav Kini wrote: > Hmm. I have to say I'm surprised that people are advocating for using > trailing whitespace at all, as it seemed to me to be quite universally > reviled in the programming world. But on some reflection, the only real > problem with trailing whitespace - other than that it bloats files and that > it, er, grates on certain types of minds :) - is that people remove it from, > or, though I imagine this is rare, add it to otherwise untouched lines. I > guess if hypothetically we had stuck to a "no trailing whitespace policy" > from day 1 of Sage development, such a policy would have minimized diff > cruft. But Sage's codebase is already so big that perhaps the best policy is > just "don't purposelessly add or remove whitespace to lines that you aren't > otherwise editing". As far as that goes, Jason's .emacs snippet seems useful > for the developer's guide, indeed.
+1 to this policy ! WE are trying to do that in the sage-combinat project. Systematically remove all trailing whitespaces creates a lot of conflicts in the patch queue so I'm strongly against it. Cheers, Florent -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
