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Remove trailing whitespace
It annoys the hell out of the rest of the team.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoNot to pick on this submission in particular, but in a forum devoted to hackers and entrepreneurs, does this really belong here? I hesitate to flag it as inappropriate because maybe I'm just out-of-step with everyone else, and I'd appreciate some guidance, or some sense of what other people think. Thanks.
- hga 16y agoI think so: After playing this game for a decade and a half, including a lot of work on bad codebases, by the early '90s I developed a set of quickly discernible and amazingly reliable metrics that could help me judge the quality of random code. Trailing whitespace was a really good metric of sloppy coding, at least in the '80s and '90s. The fact that it confuses SCM systems is just another reason to be this sort of meticulous with your code's text and to e.g. select for programmers who are that sort of careful.