On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:53 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's by no means a big deal, but the linebreaks were there on purpose, so 
> that if you add or remove or modify a sentence in a paragraph, the 
> corresponding diff is relatively short and clear. When you have a single 
> 655-character-long paragraph, like we now do here, that means any change to 
> any part of that paragraph will show up in the diff email as a change to the 
> entire paragraph, and it will be difficult to see from the diff what change 
> was made, and this makes spotting errors more difficult.

That makes a lot of sense, actually. I thought they were there erroneously.

> Also, your diff above has combined changes to the substance of the document 
> with whitespace changes, so that it's difficult to see from the diff what the 
> substantive changes are.

My fault. It's harder to keep track of whitespace vs. substance for prose than 
code, I find.

vq
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