Eco-C Compiler
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Sun Aug 4 13:25:17 AEST 1985
>>the parser barfs on "printf (...)" and not on "printf(...)".
>K&R don't say it's ok to put a space between the function name and
>parens, ANSI don't say it okay, and I just avoid the practice. Oh, well.
>(Flames expected).
...and received: the problem was that the original wording was ambiguous.
The *intent* is that any identifier followed by a left parenthesis, with
nothing other than whitespace intervening, is a function call.
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