Re: The problem isn't us, it's you.

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From: dom (Dominic Mitchell)
Subject: Re: The problem isn't us, it's you.
Date: 19:36 on 25 Feb 2007

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:37:53PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> So, while on the subject of meaningless spaces, why exactly IS it that 
> "Make" cares whether you have a space or a tab before a rule?

Because make already had 10 users when this bug was found, so Stu
Feldman thought it would to be too inconvenient to change it.

The closest I can come to an actual citation is this:

  https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9510&L=html-wg&T=0&P=29679

-Dom

There's stuff above here

Peter da Silva 22:37 on 24 Feb 2007
- Andrew Black 12:44 on 25 Feb 2007
- Yossi Kreinin 13:13 on 25 Feb 2007
  - Peter da Silva 14:08 on 25 Feb 2007
- dom (Dominic Mitchell) 19:36 on 25 Feb 2007
  - Peter da Silva 01:29 on 26 Feb 2007

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