Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!splut!jay 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 Lines: 17 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. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!