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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C style peeve
Keywords: return
Message-ID: <2071@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Mar 90 16:35:05 GMT
References: <2205@osc.COM>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <2205@osc.COM> jgk@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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