From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Henrie Subject: Re: [PATCH] stripspace: Call U+0020 a "space" instead of a "blank" Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 22:26:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1454037056-26355-1-git-send-email-alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Stefan Beller , "git@vger.kernel.org" , Tobias Klauser To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 10 06:27:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTNJD-00050o-Vq for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 06:27:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932266AbcBJF1U (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:27:20 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:37373 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753190AbcBJF1T (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:27:19 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id g62so11366609wme.0 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:27:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=CeiD0i9DI8+IYUlQ/7B6bLkT/T5kCuQ9aoshbcJ8Hl4=; b=TTsjOI/vLDD5jDu4aSuwGqrtcOwRvxX8ZbqWWqk8kUlLWER/TxAZQvrCoHb0wVuwap ZHBTzDBjTfQIGs3bHCnIIVXA71S4F3ttetJ9w/DLWeWLp+FGy2314H2YwNpnne5kVJ0m 2DDxdorxVpuztSU07+Ytkj+Y8U5K8L2pM7zuR/80Zr/er+JSO8uGQYYDb8hywDcHDHs4 r3+6WRSFVK2Cx3/VTjipgh4pVrfNLLi3UU8+tv9J/c2qoR+pdLcKEtkTEiIfTpKMgd3x ne7jh2Dy5fOCizgkmo8JhWEdCb3je8KFiJXDqbcJ/01iqpW1TVAyceP/UyTnLozhrVPi 6NuA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=CeiD0i9DI8+IYUlQ/7B6bLkT/T5kCuQ9aoshbcJ8Hl4=; b=B9Cp6arevAU2JF1vhqF9HUdUIH767hAbrvY0LKdfTZzfrzrQbUfpFUanXKXls5tVPy 8aSyjxbNcow7jme0gYfNZA4hlqnTcfQYEuYE2495V4mvR6AhHxuioLC+wFQyRWmM6065 kC9iDtvSo9jEcd87/q9tGzK9WcX/bIHpW1bDdIlCW+68DqRYeoyAiFgXOrMCB3ehGBtX bh63FizdGrJ2AE5fRmFCd2mTMTiSXQb2mSrVPTiam9NOK4hnoNcH9vuQYPUfPKNykudK MIZ/b5iIBloloHhsZRX2b/YJ2hF+Cs/RMGescS/BIngNKQOc2ijayLFxDyg9/xIm1Nm7 iKGg== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOQdGzOBj10g5FSprTQ8q3AqU5QTeif/06+X5fGCMC1n3ou9ywcGn3bNdbah9m7ry0BvCDs1d8snOKV+2w== X-Received: by 10.28.210.73 with SMTP id j70mr8404069wmg.8.1455082037833; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.28.73.212 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:26:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2016-02-09 16:00 GMT-07:00 Junio C Hamano : > Stefan Beller writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Alex Henrie writes: >>> >>>> I couldn't find any other examples of people referring to this character >>>> as a "blank". >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie >>>> --- >>> >>> Any comments on this from anybody other than the author that I >>> missed to support this change? >> >> I remember "blank" being used in my early days of computing. >> >> The blank was somehow more accurate as it described the exact >> thing (i.e. char U+0020 as commonly produced via the space bar >> on the key board) >> >> A space however could refer to any kind of indentation. >> * tabs would qualify for that >> * other tricks of your (wordprocessor-) editor would qualify for that >> (indent by 2 inches in footer section or other weeirdness) >> * any other character not using any ink in a printer[1] >> >> [1] https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html >> >> Looking at that table in there, U+0020 is officially called "space", >> so I guess the patch is technically correct. > > So the "blank" is correct because we just want a gap between the > comment char and the text, and use of " " is merely an > implementation detail. The "space" is correct because that happens > to be the byte used as the implementation detail of leaving that gap > between the comment char and the text. > > ;-) "blank" does not sound like good English to me, but there are a lot of dialects of English, so I can understand if it sounds natural to someone else. -Alex