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From: jeff@unh.UUCP (Jeffrey E. F. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary parenthesis
Summary: why "return(e)" and not "return e"
Message-ID: <570@unh.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 88 03:11:53 GMT
References: <326@marob.MASA.COM> <8209@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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In article <8209@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> []
> 	return 0;		/* intuitive */
> 
> 	return(0);	/* one wonders why the () are there */

Most likely because _every_ 'return' in K&R-I has those superfluous parens.
K&R-II has been "fixed" (I like 'return(e)' beter), but 10 years too late.

	*jeff*
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