Re: PDD 2nd go: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:25:45 +0100 (BST), Dave Mitchell wrote:

>diffs:
>
>-"K&R" style for indenting control constructs
>+"K&R" style for indenting control constructs: ie the closing C<}> should
>+line up with the opening C<if> etc.

On Wed, 30 May 2001 10:37:06 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>I realize that no matter what style we choose, there will be a good crop of 
>people who won't be thrilled with it. (For the record, we can count me as 
>one, if that makes anyone feel any better :) That's inevitable.

If you have a diff/patching suite that falls over whitespace, you have a
problem with diff, not with style.

One can always to a pretty-print cleanup of the code, before doing the
diff, if all else fails.

IMO this is not worth bickering over.

-- 
        Bart.