Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Fix possible issues running in a turkish locale

[Darshit Shah]

On 11/19, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Tim Rühsen wrote:
>
> > I won't change my toolchain just to see these formfeeds. Looks like 
> > I had luck so far... but now, really, how can I work on Wget's 
> > sources from now on ? I have to stop here and now...
>
> Stop with that crap (formfeed characters) already. Exactly zero people 
> actually need those things in source code, which is also why no modern 
> projects use them anywhere. They're not helpful these days.
>
> Also, the GNU code guidelines say this[1]: "Please use formfeed 
> characters (control-L) to divide the program into pages at logical 
> places". It does not say that they are mandatory or that you'll be run 
> out of the village if you don't use them.
>
> Code guidelines are supposed to *help*!
>
> [1] = end of the section at 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting
I completely agree that we do not need (or want) those form feed characters in 
the code. And the whole issue erupted because the patch had some changes on the 
same line as a form feed character. Let's just amend it and move on for now.

It would seem that GNU Emacs has a mode where it can use these linefeed 
characters to browse the source by pages. I think when a project is already 
placing logically separate parts of the code in different files, we shouldn't be 
logically separating a single file with line feed characters.

@Tim: Please just add that include statement one line above, or else I'll make 
the required change and push it.

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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