Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Annoyingly necessary spaces Message-ID: <11812@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 88 12:20:52 GMT References: <326@marob.MASA.COM> <2550075@hpisod2.HP.COM> <19782@watmath.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 16 I really like the "return xx" vs "return(xx)" issue. But, hey, you get to choose. What I want to know is when the illegality of "i=++j" or the old-fashioned syntax default of "s=*++t" and "m=--n" is going to go away. Is this just a cloying Berkeleyism? Will ANSI C make a difference, or is the weight of tons of old-fashioned code going to decide matters? It can't be too difficult to put in a "-pg40" compiler flag, meaning "pro- grammer is under 40 years old, and doesn't care to hear about how all the overgrown hippies programmed once upon time", or something to that effect. If I wanted a language where I had to put extra blanks around operators, I'd program in COBOL. (And no, I'm not a reformed APL hacker.) ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720