Re: Spaces before brackets - acceptable?

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Nick Gammon wrote:
> [snip snip]
> Even "The Complete Syntax Of Lua" doesn't seem to mention whitespace. 
> Obviously it is needed to separate words like "local" and "function" but 
> that seems to be implied.

The lexical analyzer separates the input into tokens, so the 
parser sees tokens only. Whitespace, comments, etc. are removed 
during lexical analysis. So I guess it's implied, the ref manual 
kinda expects that you are aware of the two processing phases.

> So please don't laugh, but can someone point me to where it says, on the 
> official documentation, that a space is OK between a function name and 
> the bracket which starts the arguments? Thank you.

I think either one is fine, as long as it is consistent. But then 
I'm not much of a stickler for particular styles, so YMMV...

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Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia