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This is great. One piece of feedback, about the reviews themselves: Every time you use parentheses, there’s no space between the preceding word and the opening paren(like this).

I only read through the ACF review, but I saw it a number of times there.

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Interesting you say that. Where are you from?

The reason I ask is I've always learned to put a space in front of the parentheses and a quick Google search also only yields sources that say to do so. That being said, I'm American and my Google sources seem to be mostly American sources. Are you British, perhaps?

I think he's saying that the article omits that space, but should include it.

Could be a play on the WP coding standard which I believe is generous with spacing and parens :)

Probably not, but it sounds like good spin.

Hmm I though there's no space traditionally. I'll check it out.

I think the custom is different depending on where you're from. I'm American and I have always used a space between the text and the opening paren. On that note, another American thing is to put two spaces after a period (something I've long stopped doing).

I think two spaces after a period is more of a typewriter bad habit than American thing. Back when you had a single monospace typeface, I think it just made things more legible. People who learned it then passed it on to generations who never used a typewriter.

anecdotal, but when I was in grade school (in the US) I was taught that it was a MLA rule to use two spaces after a period. I had teachers that deducted points from a paper if the extra spaces were missing.

Are you from India? I checked out your LinkedIn (HN profile > Website > LinkedIn)

Apparently there are others who have asked the same https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-Indians-not-use-spaces-pro...

For the link, I don't use WP myself but if I ever do I'll find this post again.

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