Humans should think of sizeof() as a function, says Linus Torvalds

Re:Humans should think of sizeof() as a function, says Linus... by Udo on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:25AM (#9629800)

No, not always. Not in Go, or in Rust, or Ruby, for example. The assumption being in these languages that if is followed by an expression and that expression is parsed to its natural end anyway - but this only works if the syntax allows for that end to be found without ambiguity.

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Re:Humans should think of sizeof() as a function, says Linus... by krylon on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:44AM (#9629842)

In Go, however, go fmt will remove the unnecessary parentheses. I was very annoyed at first, when I saw this, but I got used to it.

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Re:Humans should think of sizeof() as a function, says Linus... by mcguire on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:24AM (#9630439)

Does it generally do this in expressions, based on operator precedence, or is it limited to the outer parentheses on selected statements?

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Re:Humans should think of sizeof() as a function, says Linus... by krylon on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:39AM (#9630497)

I am not an expert, but I think it only removes the outermost ones. The major task of the tools is indentation and placement of curly braces.

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