[rspec-users] Coding standards and whitespace

[aslak hellesoy]

On 7/31/07, Wincent Colaiuta <win at wincent.com> wrote:
> El 31/7/2007, a las 22:48, aslak hellesoy escribió:
>
> > The root Rakefile has a task :fix_cr_lf which I ran a while ago to fix
> > newlines in .rb files. Perhaps it can be improved to scan over more
> > files, and replace \t with '  ' too?
> >
> > I'll see what I can do.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Sounds like a good idea. I would suggest that \t should be replaced
> with '  ' only if it is in the leading whitespace for a line; if it
> is elsewhere in the line it is probably being (mis)used for alignment
> and it's probably better to just print a warning showing the filename
> and then you'd have to visually inspect it as a straight
> transliteration might not be right (it might be equivalent to one
> space, not two).
>

Good point

> I think it's also worth looking for trailing whitespace as it is
> almost always an mistake which apports neither semantic meaning nor
> visual enhancement.
>

Trailing whitespace is killed with the strip

Aslak

> Cheers,
> Wincent
>
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