On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Can we please stop this thread already? Starting a thread about whitespace was stupid, and continuing to discuss it is equally stupid.
It seems to me that making commits to change whitespace that, from what I can tell, benefits no one (the fact that you didn't simply answer my question suggests you don't know any benefit either) and harms at least one person is the stupid thing.
I happen to like 80 characters per line, so I'm benefited.
To answer your original question: it's because we've done it this way forever, and there's not really any reason to change.
-Chad