GCC works quite well in practice and I don’t care much about a couple of extra/missing spaces in its source code. The answer to your question is probably “becau

GCC works quite well in practice and I don’t care much about a couple of extra/missing spaces in its source code. The answer to your question is probably “because the software has been developed for decades by thousands of unrelated people”. Personally, I don’t write code like this, because I spam “autoformat” hotkey in the IDE :-)