RE: eol style differences

Jack Repenning writes:
> Michael Price:
> > Well, I don't know about everyone else, but I've passed the
> > '-w' flag to diff so often that I now type it without even
> > thinking.
>
> Edit much Python, do you? Python whitespace (indentation) is
> meaningful, and "diff -w" misses substantive changes.

Yep. I use a good editor (emacs) which has a mode to handle indentation
for me. I also do this thing called "testing" whereby I notice problems
in code.

> In any language, whitespace is meaningful in some contexts, as for
> example inside strings.

Gee, really? Thanks for the info.

Michael Price Member of the Engineering Staff
Distributed Processing Lab; Lockheed Martin Adv. Tech. Labs
A&E 3W; 1 Federal Street; Camden, NJ 08102
856-338-4021, fax 856-338-4144 email: mprice@atl.lmco.com

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Received on Thu Mar 13 23:40:21 2003