Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!fido.wpd.sgi.com!fido!jackr From: jackr@dblues.wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Makefile whitespace... a neophyte question. Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 23:25:47 GMT References: <76A4A8F2A29F002123@NRCNET.NRC.CA> <1991May14.185121.8893@zola.esd.sgi.com> Sender: news@fido.wpd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com's message of Tue, 14 May 91 18: 51:21 GMT In article <1991May14.185121.8893@zola.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: It was an unfortunate choice of syntax back and pre-history and is cast in stone. Sorry. There is, in fact a story (possibly apocryphal) on the matter. At some time or other, Steve Feldman, who wrote make originally, is said to have realized that this rule requiring a tab here was really a bad idea - but too late to change it, since "he already had ten users"! Jack Repenning 9U-530 jackr@wpd.sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. Off:(415) 335-7477 Systems Software Technology Center Fax:(415) 969-2314