[merge] really fix the trailing newline bugs

Matthieu Moy Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr
Tue Jul 11 18:33:04 BST 2006


John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> We got rid of the trailing marker because it was a bit of an eyesore.
> (Though now we have base64 encoded stuff, so maybe it would be
> reasonable to bring back.)

Well, it's a relatively widespread (I didn't say universally
used ;-) ) convention to have a final marker, even if it's not
required. Like elisp programmers like to write

;; foo.el ends here

for example, or some C++ programmers putting a

// EOF

at end of file.

-- 
Matthieu




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