Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 14:10 UTC
Message-ID: <4403086F.5040704@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20060227133124.GA8794@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Uwe Zeisberger wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>I think the question is whether completely empty lines are also ignored 
>>by Python, or if they start a new block of code. Whatever the case, it 
>>must hold true for both 2.3 and 2.4.
> 
> see
> 	http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/ref/blank-lines.html
> 	http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/ref/blank-lines.html
> 	http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/ref/blank-lines.html
>

So in essence, a multi-line statement is closed when a completely empty line is found, which means that making git internals recognize and strip such lines will result in Python code never being manageable by git.

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