[Sbcl-devel] Re: detabification (was Branch relaxation)

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:10:17AM +0200, G?bor Melis wrote:
> So it's not just me. Yes, kill them all. While we're at it what about 
> nuke-trailing-spaces? Oh, and a cvs hook script that checks for tabs in lisp 
> files and refuses the commit or at least warns?

"Yes" and "mostly yes" IMO. On a flag day when we we're tweaking
whitespace everywhere in the source anyway, we might as well tidy the
ends of lines too. And I don't know how easy a CVS hook script is; if
easy and clean, then fine, otherwise a 95% solution might be to put a
test for whitespace anomalies into the scripts we run for testing, or
a 90% solution could be just to retidy the sources manually when we
notice that checkins have added anomalies, more or less as we might
notice and fix spelling and punctuation errors.

Actually, I suppose "y'all" currently seems rather more correct than
"we" but someday I might actually be able to return to doing more
production coding than prototype incremental algorithm flailing, so I
like to keep my options open...:-|

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