On 7/24/07, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm with Barry. I still use Emacs. Emacs's paragraph filling algorithm, > > whether invoked explicitly via M-q or implicitly via auto-wrap mode, > > distinguishes the usage of periods based on the number of spaces following > > them. Two or more spaces are used to separate sentences. One space (for > > example, G. D. Montanaro) following a period is considered a non-breakable > > space.
I made this argument in private to Talin before he went here for a second opinion. Apparently it wasn't strong enough. :-) > There's no need to invoke Emacs to argue for the superiority of two > spaces after each sentence, according to this vi user. Indeed. After all, we're talking about PEP 9, which is a *plaintext* format. Check out http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0009/ and you'll see that it is rendered in a fixed-width font with line breaks exactly where they are in the source, and the two spaces make a difference for readability. How about in PEP 9 we keep the recommendation, perhaps weakened to "should" or "ought"; but in PEP 12 (the ReST equivalent) we remove it altogether because it doesn't affect the rendering. And let's please not make this into a bikeshed discussion than it already is. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
