Abigail writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:27:51PM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > > > Well, I guess BitKeeper is right - whitespace matters in Makefiles, > > Python scripts and ASCII art. > > And don't forget perl6.
There's a difference. Yossi was passing diff the -b flag, which ignores changes in amounts of whitespace (but still sees as significant the difference between having some whitespace and having none at all). Makefiles and Python programs can be broken by a change that -b hides (adjusting an existing patch of whitespace). The aspect of Perl 6 which you hate is that inserting some whitespace where there wasn't any changes its meaning -- and -b will still show that! Smylers
