From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:22:33 GMT
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <86wtfgzv0m.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602271539160.4371@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

>>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

Johannes> Exactly. That is what Andreas is saying: if you change a line which 
Johannes> consists only of trailing whitespace to an empty line, it breaks python 
Johannes> (or formatting).

[insert standard rant about Python treating invisible things significantly,
which is the prime counter-rant to people saying Perl looks like line noise]

[chuckling]

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