I wrote:
I don't know how compare non-cosmetic changes only, nor the best way to show differences *within* a line instead of only entire-line differences. Both of these would be very nice.
One solution to the problem of cosmetic changes showing as differences:
Don't do it
especially on others' code.
If someone is changing functionality, they are welcome to reformat entire methods they change to their taste. Otherwise, I would (almost) never make cosmetic-only changes to other peoples code..
Hi chris,
I'm not sure I understood what you meant exactly but here are some points to explain what drived us:
- the code in the image should be homogenous so having := consistently would be better than having one methods with _ and one with :=
- we tried to ease the transition between Squeak and the other Smalltalks which (as far as I know but I can be wrong use :=).
- people can use the characters they want for their code - I would loved to get a consistently formatting and I believe in your increase in productivity ;) I hope that the pretty printer a guy here is doing will be cool enough so that everybody can use it
Stef
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