Re: On the use of 0 or NULL, the discussion continues...

[James Youngman]

On 6/28/07, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> As long as we are talking style one other thing that has always
> annoyed me is the space after the function and before the parens.
> (e.g. "foo (arg);" instead of "foo(arg);".)  While I am sure that
> practice came from experience with lisp (which always separates the
> function and the arguments with a space and seems fine to me there
> with lisp syntax) it never seems natural to me in other languages.  It
> seems that most other language styles prefer no space there and at
> least one other language (ruby) codifies it in the language that the
> space cannot be there!  Sigh.  Perhaps Fortran's complete denial that
> whitespace exists in the input deck is the right way after all. :-)

I find that this is the aspect of the GNU coding standards with which
I have most trouble complying.   The pattern seems unnatural to me and
I just often seem not to remember to put the space in.   This means
that the findutils code often doesn't have a space, but some parts do
have spaces because I occasionally remember.  The resulting mixture is
not very aesthetically appealing.

James.