[pypy-dev] whitespace policies

Riaan Booysen riaan at e.co.za
Mon Apr 25 00:37:39 CEST 2005


Hi,

Just FYI, reindent.py removes trailing whitespace on a line.

Cheers,
Riaan.

Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:28:21PM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> 
>>Now my question is, do we want to "enforce" or at least 
>>state in our coding-style document one policy or the other?  
> 
> 
> I'm not too concerned about a few dummy diff entries, even though I'm usually
> avoiding to kill trailing whitespace.  I don't see the point of strict
> policies as long as the source code base is roughly consistent, and I think
> that it is.  This is both about trailing whitespace and indentation -- I mean,
> we know that indentation is 4 spaces and we all follow that rule
> 
> By contrast I'd not enjoy enforced editor configurations, and really despise a
> monster check-in that would render svn blame useless (which, I may add, I find
> extremely useful to find not necessary who but when and with which log message
> a particular line was written).
> 
> 
> Armin
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