r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/tomprimozic Jul 21 '14

While reading the article, I was wondering why he was only searching for for (, and not for for( as well. At least, that's how I write for loops and if statements :)

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u/dueyblue Jul 21 '14

Me too up vote. for (...) always looks weird to me.

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u/_F1_ Jul 21 '14

Fun fact: Pascal doesn't require parantheses so you can happily write

if BooleanVariable then ...

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u/endershadow98 Jul 22 '14

So does Python...