[lug] Fwd: Examining controversy and common sense in programming language syntax

[Davide Del Vento]

Frankly I don't care about whitespace conventions and I am surprised that
people who do (instead of changing each other's style) have not written
some pre-commit and post-commit hooks to store in the repo something
"neutral" while viewing in their text editors their preferred style.

Things that bug me are others, like... let me start a new thread instead of
hijacking this one...

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:26 PM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:25:00 -0600
> Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> > In "Sanity vs. Invisible Markings
> > <
> https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-2707ex324ed5x014460&
> >"
> > in *ACM Queue*, *George Neville-Neil* (a.k.a. Kode Vicious) addresses a
> > reader's question about white space in Python.
>
> "In point of fact, it would be better to pick a single character that is
> not a tab and not a space and not normally used in a program—for example,
> Unicode code point U+1F4A9 ..."
>
> Great, now people are going to start using that in variable names. Perhaps
> unironically?
>
> He likes syntax highlighting too. I always turn it off, as it bugs the
> U+1F4A9
> out of me.
>
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