On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Vincent Siveton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/6 Adam Winer <[email protected]>: >> What is the advantage of removing trailing whitespace? I can't see a >> reason to do it at all. Unlike removing unnecessary imports (say), it >> doesn't improve the codebase in any objective manner. > > According the given stats, it seems that the majority devs already > have configured their favourite IDE to do it with pros/cons.
What stats? As best I can tell, the default Eclipse install (what I'm using for my Shindig work) doesn't do it, and it creates leading whitespace for blank lines, which your checkins then remove. > [1] doesn't detail this case and I just want to be sure that the team > shares the same configuration and remove or not trailing whitespace is > one of them. So, include it to the Java style or not? My vote is for "not". Cheers, Adam > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > [1] http://cwiki.apache.org/SHINDIGxSITE/java-style.html >
