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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> But there are only a limited number of ways you can write code in
> distinguishable ways.  I feel that the use of sizeof is not dissimilar
> to some uses of function calls, and thus it writing it in a similar
> manner makes sense.
[...]

The use of sizeof is visually not dissimilar to some uses of function
calls, but because sizeof is semantically very different, writing it in
a distinct manner makes sense.

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