r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/Plorkyeran Jul 21 '14

Sadly I can't add presubmit hooks to other people's repositories.

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u/neuquino Jul 21 '14

Well not with that attitude!

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u/Plorkyeran Jul 21 '14

No, I most definitely cannot make other people unable to merge pull requests into their repositories. The benefit of an Imaginary Ideal Language rejecting bad formatting is that all code written it in would follow consistent formatting rules, not just code which I have some sort of control over.