8.4 Whitespaces

With the term whitespace we'll refer to a character which is a space, a tabulation or a carriage return. In order to separate words you can use an arbitrary amount of whitespaces so the following are equivalent:

if (x==3) { print (x); y=2; }

if (x==3) {
  print (x);
  y=2;
}

if (x==3)
  {
    print (x);
    y=2;
  }

There's an important exception: whitespaces are significant within literal strings (Section 8.5) so:

"Hello World !"

and

"Hello      World      !"

are different.