Re: Kernighan and Ritchie notation contentions

["Laura Lemay, Killer of Trees" <lemay -at- LNE -dot- COM>]

>But what mean the cryptic words "notation
>contentions" in the original?

There are two "contentions" that I know of -- one being the differences
between original C ("K&R C") and ANSI C that were mentioned earlier.

The other one is in brace style, that is, where people put the
braces that surround the body of a block statement. K&R does
this:

if ( n < 0) {
    foozle;
    blorffle;
    smotz;


Whereas others prefer

if ( n < 0)

    foozle;
    blorffle;
    smotz;


Or even

if ( n < 0)
    {
    foozle;
    blorffle;
    smotz;
    }

Contentions about the One True Brace Style to cause a lot of discussion
in the C community.  C programmers are odd folk.


Laura (a sometime C programmer)
lemay -at- lne -dot- com