do people really complain about significant whitespace?

[Aahz]

In article <1154986984.740638.241130 at m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
infidel <saint.infidel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Where are they-who-hate-us-for-our-whitespace?  Are "they" really that
>stupid/petty?  Are "they" really out there at all?  "They" almost sound
>like a mythical caste of tasteless heathens that "we" have invented.
>It just sounds like so much trivial nitpickery that it's hard to
>believe it's as common as we've come to believe.

When I put on my Python evangelist hat, I do get complaints about that
regularly.
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