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