C style peeve and knowing the rules

Kral braun at drivax.UUCP
Thu Mar 29 02:13:25 AEST 1990


In article <19356 at megaron.cs.arizona.edu> robert at cs.arizona.edu (Robert 
J. Drabek) writes:
	[on the subject of parens in a return statement]
>
>Please, I know parenthesis are sometimes an aid in producing readable
>code and they are also clutter which can make for less-readable code.

I don't know.  

	return( a > b ? a : b ) ;

looks a lot more readable to me than

	return a > b ? a : b ;

Maybe I'm a coding wimp, or maybe I shouldn't use complex statements, but I
have (what I think are sound) reasons for doing so, and the former is more
readable to me than the latter as it sets off the expression being returned.

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