Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: Adrien Beau <adrienbeau@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-02-27 22:26:34
On 2/27/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> there is a good reason not to enable the no-whitespace-at-eol checking in
> pre-commit by default (at least for *all* files) for git development:
>
>         Python.
>
> Just do a "/ $" in git-merge-recursive.py. These whitespaces are not an
> error, but a syntactic *requirement*.

No, they aren't.

A logical line that contains only spaces and tabs is ignored by
Python. (All the "dirty" lines in git-merge-recursive.py are such
lines.)

Besides, spaces, tabs and newlines can be used interchangeably to
separate tokens, so trailing whitespace is never *required*.

Hope this helps,

Adrien
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