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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary parenthesis
Summary: leave 'em out
Message-ID: <8108@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 88 17:51:30 GMT
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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I leave out the parentheses in a
	return whatever;
statement; this ensures that if I mistakenly write
	retunr whatever;
I'll get a warning at compile time--along with a line number--rather than
an "Undefined: _retunr" error at link time (with no indication of where the
error is) as would be true if I wrote
	retunr(whatever);
(which the compiler would take to be a function call.)

Of course this advice applies only to those of us who make mistakes.
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