On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:14:55PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
>
> >Run, do not walk, from any language in which "Simply rearranging
> >indentation often introduces bugs."
>
> Then you need to throw out C and C++. It is a common fallacy that C is
> not sensitive to whitespace.
>
Straw horse, straw horse! You went from rearranging indentation to white
space separating tokens. Huge jump completely unjustified by my
statement.
> c+++++d;
> c++ + ++d;
> c+ ++ ++d;
> c++ ++ +d;
>
> The other problem is that people who are "rearranging whitespace" in C
> quite often get it *wrong*.
>
> They try and rearrange
>
> if (foo) {
> something;
> }
>
> to
>
> if (foo)
> something;
>
> and forget something.
>
> -a
>
>
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