>From a very personal view I'm tempted to share Mladens dislike of trailing spaces. If I try to express, why I don't like them, then it all comes back to diffs.
Trailing spaces increase the potential of diff lines with no functional differences. Nevertheless one wastes time to check very carefully, if there's really no functional change in them. And why do trailing spaces produce diff deltas? I think most of the time because of copy and paste. Copy and paste is able to remove trailing spaces, when you do it from a screen output of code. So you attempt to clone code (I know, we never want to do that) and the result looks the same, but in fact it will produce diff lines because of whitespace differences. Omitting all whitespace differences from the subversion diff mails is something I really find dangerous, because there are cases, where you need to see whitespace changes. Removing all trailing whitespace from Java source files might be doable by a script, although I didn't think about that deeply enough. All in all I would be +0 for a policy of not introducing new trailing whitespace (as long as we don't shoot at each other if it happens nevertheless, but we agree, that we should avoid it) and no idea about the best way of cleaning up existing code (once per script or during the usual editing process over time). Regards, Rainer Mladen Turk schrieb: > Henri Gomez wrote: >> I remember the cold days of the 'Tab brigade' :) >> > > Right. > Anyhow, the point of my post was 'minimal', and > removing the trailing spaces. > > It seems that the trailing spaces are very important, > so fine with me. > > Cheers, > Mladen. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
