Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files

[Paulo Marques]

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 :)

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
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