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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:53:43AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     You guys are so funny.  I'm probably the most liberal when it comes
>     to allowing formatting changes to source code, e.g. ANSIfication,
>     de-registerization, bracing and other syntactical changes... but even
>     I would not accept large scale patches which simply change spaces to
>     tabs or removes trailing whitespace.  That's just plain silly.

sure (best read with a good editor):

#define this_is_misleading \=20
	int this_is_not_part_of_the_previous_line;

But it's my practice to compare object files before/after doing formatting
changes (doesn't catch all of the problems, but is necessary).

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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