whitespace rule is confusing--can I enforce "no space?"

[giladgray]

the whitespace rule accepts up to 7 flags. is it possible to express the following desire?

• one of the flags is "true," as in i want whitespace in that case
• another flag is "false," as in i want to validate that there is no whitespace in that case

(i suspect not...)

stylelint makes this really easy by defining each case as its own rule (often as two -space-before and -space-after rules, see function-comma-* here). perhaps its worth considering breaking this rule into many smaller ones for each piece of the puzzle:

// require whitespace after
"whitespace-branch": [true, "after"],
// require no whitespace (but rule is enabled)
"whitespace-type": [true],

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

@giladgray coming back to this: what would you propose we do here? Is the whitespace rule now configurable enough?

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Also relevant: discussions in #628 and linked issues.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Formatting rule issue without discussion for several months? Time to close 😄