[RFA] Evening up the right margins

[Michael Snyder]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:17:31 -0800
>> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
>>
>> Mark and Joel, I'm especially interested in your feedback.
>>
>> This patch is meant to help even up the right margins without adding 
>> extra lines to the file.  If folks approve, I'll do more.
> 
> The thought that comes to my mind is "if it ain't broke, don't fix
> it". 

That is, of course, a time tested principal.

However, I would argue that nasty-looking margins are a form of 
breakage.  Not as severe as testsuite failures or crashes, but
arguably worthy of fixing.

 > I think the benefit from these changes is marginal.

No pun intended, I'm sure.   ;-)

> Is this
> really worth the extra churn in the repository?  It does make diffing
> revisions of the affected files more difficult...

I feel that it makes reading the code easier, which is the trade-off.