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Date: Sat,  7 Apr 2018 13:14:33 -0700
From: Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9's style(6) manual page
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:00:37 +0300, 8halfan@airmail.cc wrote:

> Just an amateur C programmer looking for answers. My main inspirations for
> code style is K&R 2nd edition and I'm curious about the instructions in Plan
> 9's style(6) manual page (for reference,
> http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/6/style). I've
> tried to think about the motivations, but not everything is as clear as
> it seems.

The manpage explains the reasoning:

    Ultimately, the goal is to write code that fits in with the
    other code around it and the system as a whole.

So, most of the answers to your questions are simply that someone had a
preference early on. They wrote the code. If you want your code to fit
in with theirs, this is how to do it.

--
    Ori Bernstein