* Jacob Rus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-20 00:10]:
> I think that John's objection that this is not visible enough
> is not a strong enough reason to change the syntax to something
> that in the majority of cases is worse […] In fact, we use
> [spaces] to denote hard line breaks (something which I quite
> like, though maybe it's not visible enough anymore? :p).

John already said the hard break syntax is the exception that
proves the rule.

> Finally, this is only a problem at all when editing with
> a naïve text editor. Just as we shouldn't necessarily cater to
> those limited to little web form boxes, we also shouldn't
> change this syntax just for the sake of those using inferior
> editors.

Editors with smart autoindenting support generally make it *more*
annoying to work with whitespace-only lines, not less. Which is
a feature.


Besides what Michael already said about noone wanting to change
the syntax.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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