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Re: Cosmetical change: remove inconsistent "$file ends here"?


From: ng0
Subject: Re: Cosmetical change: remove inconsistent "$file ends here"?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:21:38 +0000

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> ng0 (2016-09-24 20:00 +0000) wrote:
>
>> We should either be consistent with this in all files or remove this
>> altogether in my opinion.
>>
>>> address@hidden ~/src/guix/guix-no-changes$ egrep -nr "ends here"
>>> gnu/build/vm.scm:323:;;; vm.scm ends here
> ...
>> What do you think?
>
> I don't know what the original purpose of this convention is, it was
> probably invented in those ancient times when dinosaurs walked by
> streets, but I kinda like these "ends here" things :-)
>
> The only purpose I see in using them: you can be sure that there will
> not appear redundant newlines (introduced by untidy commits) in the end
> of files.
>
> Anyway, I vote for leaving them and adding the missing ones.

Okay, with your explanation this is the more reasonable thing to do.

> -- 
> Alex
>

-- 
              ng0



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