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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary parenthesis
Message-ID: <570@splut.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 88 02:57:54 GMT
References: <326@marob.MASA.COM> <8209@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <8209@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>	return 0;		/* intuitive */

To a FORTRAN programmer.

>	return(0);	/* one wonders why the () are there */

1) Because it looks consistent.
2) It's intuitive to a converted Pascal or PL/I programmer.
3) The programmer has gotten used to putting parentheses around just about
   everything.

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