C keywords are predefined by the C compiler and they are lowercase in C89. Since there are only 32, why can’t one define them as case-insensitive? Because it makes the tokenizer simpler . This was a strong reason way back when memory and program size was measured in kbytes.
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No.. C is a space insensitive language . We can add spaces where ever we want inside the program excluding the pre-defined keywords.
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