On a serious note tho, I never understood the benefits of GNU’s spaces after functions. I don’t really mind most of the rest but I just don’t get the benefits of ‘funcname (arg)’ vs. ‘funcname(arg)’. Is there a specific reason for this? Personally, I find this to reduce readability because I have to think for a split second whether I’m looking at a variable or a function call.
Of cause this is also due to my habits, but I’m curious as to what the reasoning is.
Honestly I think it’s just “spaces before open parens” and at least it’s consistent. K&R, which I use, wants spaces before the parens in conditionals and loops but not in method sigs or method calls and the linter at work gets me almost every time I type the word “if”.
On a serious note tho, I never understood the benefits of GNU’s spaces after functions. I don’t really mind most of the rest but I just don’t get the benefits of ‘funcname (arg)’ vs. ‘funcname(arg)’. Is there a specific reason for this? Personally, I find this to reduce readability because I have to think for a split second whether I’m looking at a variable or a function call.
Of cause this is also due to my habits, but I’m curious as to what the reasoning is.
Honestly I think it’s just “spaces before open parens” and at least it’s consistent. K&R, which I use, wants spaces before the parens in conditionals and loops but not in method sigs or method calls and the linter at work gets me almost every time I type the word “if”.