-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Talin wrote:
In PEP 9 there's a requirement that PEPs must follow the "emacs convention" of 2 spaces after a period. (I didn't know this was an emacs convention, I thought it was a convention of people who used typewriters.)
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So if we're not going to enforce the rule consistently (and it seems as if we're not), can we then just remove it from PEP 9? I'm not saying that we should change the rule to one space, I'm suggesting that we just drop the requirement and let people use whatever they prefer.
As an emacs dinosaur, I'd prefer to keep the recommendation, but I also acknowledge that the smaller mammals nipping at my heals will eventually take over the world. I've recently had similar discussions in another community and I was actually kind of amazed to learn that auto-refilling of paragraphs itself was somewhat of an anachronism. Emacs will probably go the way of the vinyl record (though the latter is seeing a resurgence lately :). Changing "must" to "should" in PEP 9 would encourage but not enforce consistency, and I think that would be fine. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRqXs7nEjvBPtnXfVAQLZWAP/UGGslCnGukFXJOvXoOyQE34baFAxKEyY NmXmZnpGfnhNOgASG1zxpAzPd6PtHQUMzwk0FXwlHVHpwg9Lb+IxFGZlRAgY2Tya KspvunDYlRFGAlG13Zg+GsQZI6cOOLqjKqwPsAcNXe9NIQhTA8hJ6vYcGSbE/I3q 73INGJg5uU4= =keXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----