Benny Halevy wrote:

quoted text
> Stefan Richter in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/523 commented:

>> Jan Engelhardt, Benny Halevy, and Richard Knutsson wrote:

>> > -Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.

>> > -There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!)

>> > -characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to

>> > -be 3.

>>

>> Don't do this

>

> Again, I see no real reasons why not to besides being against Stefan's

> preferences.

BTW, my preference was about keeping the last traces of witty language

in this text, not about any particular whitespace language.
(Do you have an idea who wrote the sentences which that patch wanted to

delete, and more importantly, *why* he wrote it this way?  You

apparently don't yet, but maybe you think about it once more.  Thanks.)

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