From: Adrien Beau <adrienbeau@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:22:59 GMT
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <94fc236b0602270822v1922b15dw9f7c09351210e08f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4403086F.5040704@op5.se>

On 2/27/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
>
> 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.

Incorrect. This is only the case in the *interactive* interpreter in
the standard implementation. For source code in general, quoting the
Python Reference Manual:

"A logical line that contains only spaces, tabs, formfeeds and
possibly a comment, is ignored (i.e., no NEWLINE token is generated)."

So such lines, whether completely empty or only apparently so (i.e.
dirty), are ignored, and can be safely cleaned-up.

Adrien