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[Benson Mitchell]

On 2010-01-29, Gordon Schmidt <gordon.schmidt at s2000.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> Why do i have to put a whitespace before the
> condition of an control statement but not before the params of a
> function call?
Because they're not the same thing; the difference here is precisely
to differentiate them at a glance.
> I'm not sure, if i miss the point here, but aren't coding style rules
> supposed to ease the writing and reading of the code? I don't think
> they do, if the have different rules for statements with similar
> structure like K&R seems to have.
No, the point is to ease reading only, because it's trivial to write
code in _any_ style, and because code is written once and maintained
forever. And FWIW, there's not that much difference in readability
among them, as long as the entire codebase is in one and the
programmer has "synced" to that style. But even if another style is
better, either to read or to write, it's mmuch worse to have them
mixed, and probably uneconomical to convert the codebase.