And to fill out the story, {space}merlyn is me. I was looking at Hot{space}Potatoe, or whomever that is, wondering how to type the space on a /tell in the chatterbox. And then I thought spaces should be illegal in user names (didn't we already decide that, or was it LONG names that are illegal?). I tried creating merlyn{space} and was happy that this was rejected, but then when I created {space}merlyn, woo hoo!

I think all whitespace should be illegal in names. There's too much stuff around here that counts on a solid name. What a mess if this could continue!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker