Re: gratuitous changes

[Kim F. Storm]

"Edward O'Connor" <address@hidden> writes:

> My $0.02 regarding removing extraneous whitespace, ?\ , etc:
> 
> It seems like the occurances of ?\ and ?\      (?\SPC and ?\TAB)
> in source files is probably pretty minimal. In the particular
> case of ?\    , we have a perfectly good and arguably more
> readable substitute in ?\t, so why don't we adopt a good and
> arguably more readable substitute for ?\ , say, ?\s?
> 

AFAIK, there is no difference between "?\ " and "? ".

I'd like to "see" the space too, but \s is a bad choice.
Maybe ?\_ could identify this?

There are many ways to express a "protected space":

        ? ;  -- only works at end of line
        (+ ? )
        32
        (aref " " 0)
        (string-to-char " ")

In any case, ?\_ looks simpler.

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