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From: boyne@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary parentheses (Was: Help: VAX C problem)
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Date: 9 Apr 91 16:47:55 GMT
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In comp.lang.c, darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:

> Whitespace doesn't add anything to the program either.  Should we leave
> that out as well?

It is required in one case: "a=b/ *c".  Without the space, we have the
start of a comment, not a divide by the dereferenced pointer "c".

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com