[Omake] handling of white space

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 19.08.2007 23:12, Achim Blumensath wrote:

>>> Jason Hickey wrote:
>>>> This is intended.  Non-leading whitespace in a definition is
>>>> significant, ...
>>> What was the reason for this decision?
>> It comes from compatibility with GNU make.
> [...]
>> However, I would agree that this choice is irritating, and it might  
>> be better to diverge from GNU make here.
> 
> Yes, I would be in favour of this change. (OMake is supposed to be a
> saner alternative to make.) If you really want a variable with trailing
> white space you can use quotes.
> 
I agree. If somebody want the trailing whitespace, they can quote it. We 
should not follow make's lead - "invisible whitespace" should not be 
significant and it should be possible to add whitespace before a comment.

Of course, the trailing whitespace inside multi-line quoted strings will 
still remain, but it's a reasonable special case, IMHO.

Aleksey

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Aleksey Nogin, Research Scientist
Advanced Technologies Department, Information & System Sciences Lab
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA