-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Talin wrote:
> In PEP 9 there's a requirement that PEPs must follow the "emacs > convention" of 2 spaces after a period. (I didn't know this was an > emacs > convention, I thought it was a convention of people who used > typewriters.) > [...] > So if we're not going to enforce the rule consistently (and it > seems as > if we're not), can we then just remove it from PEP 9? I'm not saying > that we should change the rule to one space, I'm suggesting that we > just > drop the requirement and let people use whatever they prefer. As an emacs dinosaur, I'd prefer to keep the recommendation, but I also acknowledge that the smaller mammals nipping at my heals will eventually take over the world. I've recently had similar discussions in another community and I was actually kind of amazed to learn that auto-refilling of paragraphs itself was somewhat of an anachronism. Emacs will probably go the way of the vinyl record (though the latter is seeing a resurgence lately :). Changing "must" to "should" in PEP 9 would encourage but not enforce consistency, and I think that would be fine. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRqXs7nEjvBPtnXfVAQLZWAP/UGGslCnGukFXJOvXoOyQE34baFAxKEyY NmXmZnpGfnhNOgASG1zxpAzPd6PtHQUMzwk0FXwlHVHpwg9Lb+IxFGZlRAgY2Tya KspvunDYlRFGAlG13Zg+GsQZI6cOOLqjKqwPsAcNXe9NIQhTA8hJ6vYcGSbE/I3q 73INGJg5uU4= =keXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com