LXer: Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in kconfig
 

Published at LXer:

The paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handlingLinux supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous – intentionally, to weed out inferior parsers.…

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Isn't it actually the opposite of Postel's Law? Linus is being liberal in what he sends.

 

Liam Proven (the article author) is saying that Linus is forcing parsers to be more robust - i.e. forcing parsers to obey Jon Postel's robustness principle (which is how Jon titles it in Section 2.10 of TCP's RFC 761; why use eponymy when descriptiveness is the same number of words).

I've noticed Liam likes writing in a way that someone with an English degree can argue is technically not incorrect, even if the audience has to read it three times to get what they are saying.