Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
Aren't C and C++ space insensitive (except the preprocessor)?
Literally, yes, because the C and C++ compilers proper take preprocessor tokens, not strings, as input, and hence do not see the whitespace at all; the whitespace-sensitive tokenization having been completed by the preprocessor. But I think that's splitting hairs, so my answer is: not in the sense I was using that word. I don't know in what sense you use it. (In a totally space insensitive language, "andy" and "and y" would be tokenized the same way.) Personally, I don't see how A.x vs. A . x is much different from that. When using "." as an operator, I separate it by spaces from the other stuff. (Personally, I would even expect A.x, where A is not a module name, to be an error in 98-esque Haskell, but it isn't.) -- Antti-Juhani