[M3devel] whitespace rationale?

[Mika Nystrom]

Dunno, but "m3pp -callspace" does it that way... someone at SRC
liked that style??

     Mika

Jay writes:
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>Does anyone know of a reason to put a space between a function and the pare=
>n to start its call?
>Other than "When in Rome"?
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>I've long not put that in, but I see a fair amount of code that does, and a=
> fair amount of code that I didn't write that doesn't (e.g. sysutils).
>Seems to be all over the place, but a lot of Modula-3 code puts it in (not =
>that I have seen much Modula-3 code in the world...but...)
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>Similarly for array indexing array [index] vs. array[index].
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>(Not to mention if (expr) and not if ( expr ). Modula-3 (and Python!) doesn=
>'t require the parens so it comes up less often.)
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>I always like to know why..
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> - Jay