C style peeve

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Tue Mar 20 02:35:05 AEST 1990


In article <2205 at osc.COM> jgk at osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes:
>Here's my biggest C style peeve.  For some reason, many C programmers insist
>on always putting parentheses around return values, even when they're not
>necessary, which happens to be always.

When this question came up some years ago, someone posted an excellent
fake manual page for return(3).  Unfortunately I no longer have a copy -
perhaps someone could repost it?

-- Richard
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