Makefile whitespace... a neophyte question.

[John "Jack" Repenning]

In article <1991May14.185121.8893 at zola.esd.sgi.com> portuesi at 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"!


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