[prunebeads]

Some people don't like 4 space indentations, some don't like using tabs, and in most cases there's just an icky feeling behind it. Who's right?

In your own post, you give a reason for why you think (and not feel) it is wrong, and that's the right way to do. Icky feelings aren't. Maybe people saying that it feels wrong are crossing a line too?

[mercurial]

You can be intuitively against something, but not be able to work out why. A few hours later, you often realize the rational reasons behind your original feeling.

[prunebeads]

Indeed, but what if you don't? I'm not saying that intuition is bad. I'm saying that intuition is bad when trying to make a reasonable point.

[SquareWheel]

I'd agree with that, good insight.

Though I did make one (hopefully reasonable) point that it fuzzes the lines between code and explanation of that code, which I don't care for. The article also gives a valid reason that tools are not expecting this and won't correctly accommodate (though that could be considered a short-term problem).

[mercurial]

Sure. I read it as "there is something wrong with it, but I can't pinpoint what", which is fair enough in my book. It's not like this is the lynchpin of the article.

[prunebeads]

It's noise in disguise to me: filler to make it look like he has more arguments than he really has.