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On 2016-03-04 17:17, sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:
> x \
> = \
> 5
> if \
> y \
> == \
> z:
>     print \
>     'this is terrible'
>     print \
>     'but still not incorrect
> 
> It would be terrible, still but not incorrect.

And has the sociopathic benefit that the diffs make it quite clear
what changed.  None of this
looking-deep-into-lines-to-see-what-changed.

  x \
  = \
  5
  if \
  y \
- != \
+ == \
  z:
      print \
      'this is terrible'
      print \
      'but still not incorrect

Still terrible.  But not quite as useless as a knee-jerk reaction
might suggest.

I actually hacked together a binary-diff something like this,
emitting every hex-formatted byte of each file on its own line, then
diffing the two results.  I could see doing something similar to diff
Python ASTs.

-tkc