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Mark Purtill Purtill at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Wed Aug 7 09:54:55 AEST 1985


<Fnord>
>[Regarding a space between a function and the paren, as in foo () ;
>ANSI don't say it okay,...
Wrong.  I quote (from the April 30 draft, section C.1):

          Space characters,... - collectively called *white space* - are
    ignored except as they seperate tokens.
          
And of course "printf" and "(" are both tokens (identifier and operator
resp.)

       Mark
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