Re: '#include<stdio.h>' (without space) or '#include <stdio.h>' (with space)?

On Jan 4, 10:23 am, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-04, Peng Yu wrote:
It seems that "#include <stdio.h>" is widely used and I don't see many
real examples of "#include<stdio.h>" (without the space).

http://www.chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/indhill-cstyle.html

"#include<stdio.h>" is also perfect legal in the current compile (I
use gcc 4.2.4 default options).

Why on earth do you do that?

"Default options" (which I read as "no options passed to the
compiler") means to gcc and other compilers "turn off various kinds of
warnings for illegal code, and silently accept all kinds of C language
dialects and odd extensions".

Asking questions here based on such experiments is normally a waste of
time. (In this specific case it makes no difference.)

I know that this is a minute
difference. But I'm still wondering why "#include<stdio.h>" is not the
popular case. Is it because that "#include<stdio.h>" was illegal (at
lease in K&R's book, I don't see an example use "#include<"), but
later on the C language grammar was relaxed?

People add spacing to their code to make it more readable. That is
surely the original reason you don't see #include<foo> or
#include"foo".

For those of us who started writing C code after 1975, I suspect the
reason is: everyone else adds spacing, so why should *my* code look
odd for no good purpose?

/Jorgen

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