In comp.lang.c, darcy at druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: > Whitespace doesn't add anything to the program either. Should we leave > that out as well? It is required in one case: "a=b/ *c". Without the space, we have the start of a comment, not a divide by the dereferenced pointer "c". Art Boyne, boyne at hplvla.hp.com