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It's cool to rewrite simple libraries to understand how code works at lower levels.
What style of formatting are you using? It seems peculiar at times.
Thanks for comment. I am using K&R style.
I'm not sure that's K&R style. In various places you have things where the thing that follows a
for,whileorifisn't indented, and as far as I'm aware, K&R indents religiously. K&R omits braces on single statements, sure, but that statement is nonetheless indented from the parent keyword.e.g. you have things like:
and
Which I'm pretty sure should be:
and
respectively. The idea is that you can theoretically trace the keyword down to its closing brace, assuming there is one.
I didn't notice, it wasn't conscious. Thanks for the heads up. I fixed the indentation