Re: Lindent fixed to match reality

[Tim Hockin]

Ahh, religion.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:54:56PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:

> But I guess that was just a typo?  Of course, since the ()'s are useless
> here anyway, and doesn't really bring any added bonus, we end up with
> 
> sizeof *foo + 1
> 
> vs
> 
> sizeof*foo + 1

No, you're building a straw man.  Everyone knows that you should always use
the parens on sizeof().  Just because you CAN leave them out SOMETIMES does
not mean you SHOULD.

> sizeoffoo
> 
> would be invalid code, while
> 
> sizeof foo
> 
> is perfectly valid.

ooh, look at that straw man burn!

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