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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cosmetical change: remove inconsistent "$file ends here"?
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:38:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zims4dwu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ewl6tq.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:30:41 +0300")

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> ng0 (2016-09-24 20:00 +0000) wrote:
>
>> We should either be consistent with this in all files or remove this
>> altogether in my opinion.
>>
>>> ng0@shadowwalker ~/src/guix/guix-no-changes$ egrep -nr "ends here"
>>> gnu/build/vm.scm:323:;;; vm.scm ends here
> ...
>> What do you think?
>
> I don't know what the original purpose of this convention is, it was
> probably invented in those ancient times when dinosaurs walked by
> streets, but I kinda like these "ends here" things :-)

Yeah, I add them occasionally out of habit, but it’s not useful.

> Anyway, I vote for leaving them and adding the missing ones.

I vote for the status quo.  :-)  There’s not much value in spending time
either way IMO.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-24 20:00 Cosmetical change: remove inconsistent "$file ends here"? ng0
2016-09-25  8:30 ` Alex Kost
2016-09-25  9:21   ` ng0
2016-09-26  8:32     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-09-26  8:45       ` Andy Wingo
2016-09-25  9:32   ` John Darrington
2016-09-25  9:38   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-09-25 17:45     ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-25 17:55       ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-25 17:59         ` John Darrington
2016-09-28  8:38   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-10-06 19:18     ` ng0

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