On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l