return expr and Decus-C

Alan S. Driscoll alan at allegra.UUCP
Sat May 12 06:34:22 AEST 1984


> From: gwyn at brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
> Newsgroups: net.lang.c
> Subject: Re: return expr and Decus-C

> The examples
>	while expr
> etc. are silly.  They are not even legal C.
>	return expr;
> is.


Of course the examples aren't legal C, but that's not the
point.  The question is, if you are worried that

	return (expr);

looks like a function call, why aren't you worried that

	while (expr) stat;

also looks like a function call?  (Remember that 'stat'
can be the null statement.)  Aren't you being just a bit
inconsistent?

-- 
	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories



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