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.