Re: [PATCH] maint: enforce one small aspect of formatting style: space-before-"("

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> Any objections?

I cannot reasonably object, because you have not precisely explained what the
"small aspect of formatting style" is. The subject line says: space-before-"(".
The comment says:
  Ensure that there is a space before each open parenthesis in C code.
But there are currently 7542 occurrences of a non-space before an open
parenthesis in gnulib:

  $ grep '[^ ](' `find lib -name '*.[hc]'` | wc -l
  7542

So I assume the comment is not precisely describing the "small aspect of
formatting style".

What is the precise description of the small aspect?

Which lines in gnulib would be flagged by the change?

Bruno