Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Unnecessary parenthesis Message-ID: <1988Jul8.033004.17393@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <326@marob.MASA.COM>, <8209@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 88 03:30:04 GMT > return(0); /* one wonders why the () are there */ Because back in the dawn of time, they were required, and a lot of us old fogies have never quite gotten out of the habit. Moreover, a lot of the early C books were written by old fogies, so the habit has been passed down to later generations by default.