test_source harmful?
Ben Finney
bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Fri Feb 27 05:59:21 GMT 2009
Robert Collins <robert.collins at canonical.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > That's the question. Does the Bazaar team consider trailing white
> > space to be a quality regression?
>
> I don't see how it [trailing whitespace in the sourcecode of bzr
> itself] can be a quality regression as it has no functional impact
> on the behaviour of bzr.
Perhaps we mean something different, then, by “quality”. I would
say, for instance, one can decrease the quality of code by choosing
poor variable names, even though that, too, would have no functional
impact on behaviour of the code.
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