Adam Ruppe wrote:
I don't know about bearophile, but I used a lot of the functions you are talking about removing in my HTML -> Plain Text conversion function used for emails and other similar environments. squeeze the whitespace, align text, wrap for the target, etc.
As has been pointed out, a lot of these seemingly odd functions come from Python/Ruby/Javascript. Users of those languages will be familiar with them, and they've proven themselves handy in those languages.
Let's not be cavalier about dumping them just because they aren't familiar to C programmers.
