question - is it acceptable to expect a compiler t...

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[kassim]

question - is it acceptable to expect a compiler to understand that no “real” code changes have been made if only whitespace has been added?

in the case of Kotlin (compiling for JVM) I’d expect the compiled class to look the same, and thus, I’d expect the compiler to perhaps understand that nothing was changed and not decide to recompile all the other dependents and just act as if nothing had changed

I’m wondering if this is a “fair” feature request?
I actually don’t have much understanding of the complexity