From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: David Weinehall <tao@debian.org>
Cc: "Joseph D. Wagner" <theman@josephdwagner.info>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Rui Saraiva <rmps@joel.ist.utl.pt>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:31:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4016BC86.9020301@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040127191358.GI20879@khan.acc.umu.se
David Weinehall wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:51:34PM -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
>
>>>It seems that many files [1] in the Linux source have lines with
>>>trailing blank (space and tab) characters and some even have formfeed
>>>characters. Obviously these blank characters aren't necessary.
>>>
>>Actually, they are necessary.
>>
>>http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_23.html
>>http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_24.html
>>
>
> Let me quote CodingStyle:
>
> "First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
> and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture."
>
> That's how much relevance GNU's coding standards have to the kernel.
>
And even if we did use GNU's coding standards (knock on wood :), where is the
part that requires *trailing* spaces?
Only in languages like "whitespace" ( http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ ) the
trailing spaces have any meaning :)
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
"In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates?"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-01-27 18:34 ` RFC: Trailing blanks in source files Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 18:51 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2004-01-27 19:13 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-27 19:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-28 0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-28 3:49 ` jw schultz
2004-01-28 3:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-28 4:53 ` Pragnesh Sampat
2004-01-27 19:31 ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2004-01-28 22:15 ` Paul Jackson
2004-01-28 22:22 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-27 19:14 ` linux
2004-01-27 15:44 Rui Saraiva
2004-01-27 16:15 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-01-27 16:30 ` Bas Mevissen
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