Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Whitespace is your friend
Message-ID: <785@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 09:45:37 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >> Does anyone really have around any code that hasn't
 >> been converted to the new syntax by *now*?  
 >
 >Heh-heh-heh. Naive, ain't he?

...

 >			card=NOVALUE;

...

 >#define NOVALUE	-1

Actually, the problem isn't that the code in question hasn't been
converted to the new syntax; the problem is that the code in question
fails if the old syntax is honored.  A compiler that accepts *only* the
new syntax will do the right thing with that statement, i.e. assign -1
to "card".  (Yes, I tried it on such a compiler - it worked.)

Nevertheless, White Space is Still Your Friend, since if you put the
white space in compilers that still honor the old syntax will do the
right thing as well.