Style is Substance
Jun. 22nd, 2005 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
109Programs that use any new features should be required to be in K&R style or be rejected by the compiler as syntactically illegal.
I'm gonna pause here. When I was talking about this on a mailing list I had to go through this several times. People didn't quite get me because they didn't quite believe someone was saying this. I mean this quite literally. For example, I want the next C grammar to define that a space comes between any keyword and an opening parenthesis. "if (foo)" would be legal, but "if(foo)" would not. Not a warning, not optionally checked, but actually forbidden by the language parser. Flat out illegal. Can't compile.
отличная статья! продолжаю читать из спольского списка.
I'm gonna pause here. When I was talking about this on a mailing list I had to go through this several times. People didn't quite get me because they didn't quite believe someone was saying this. I mean this quite literally. For example, I want the next C grammar to define that a space comes between any keyword and an opening parenthesis. "if (foo)" would be legal, but "if(foo)" would not. Not a warning, not optionally checked, but actually forbidden by the language parser. Flat out illegal. Can't compile.
отличная статья! продолжаю читать из спольского списка.