Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Joe Butler
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 01:08 pm


"akarl" <fusionfive@comhem.se> wrote in message
news:XObMe.144253$dP1.498972@newsc.telia.net...


>
> I can inform you that the keyword `for' is the start of a control
> statement and not a function call, hence the very reason for putting a
> space after `for', `while' and `if', to make it look less like a
> function call. (The parentheses around the guard are only there to
> simplify lexical scanning.)
>

Well!, I never....

Yeah, I might have thought that

if(x){
    blah blah
}

was an inline function called 'if'.

Where

if (x){
    blah blah
}


is obviously not.

.