"I'm not most people, but when the Nuit spec says "Anything between the @ and the first whitespace character is the first element of the list," I don't see a reason to make "@ " a special case that means something different."
Then I'll change the spec to be more understandable. What wording would you prefer?
I'll try to make it a minimal change: "If there's anything between the @ and the first whitespace character, that intervening string is the first element of the list."
