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Comment by frizlab | Hacker News Reader

Unrelated: why spaces inside the parentheses? It’s not the first time I see this, but this is incorrect!

JSON doesn't have parentheses, but it does have braces and brackets. The JSON spec specifically allows spaces.

> Insignificant whitespace is allowed before or after any token.

I was talking about the parent comment, which has spaces inside the parenthesis (I do prefer no spaces inside brackets and braces in my JSONs, but that’s another story).

Probably someone who writes C/C++ and formats their code that way

    if ( x == ( y + z ) * w ) {

Personally, I find it hard to read.

Agreed. But I find this easier to read:

  if ( x == (y+z) * w )
      {

Spaces help group things.

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