Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Help: VAX C problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.203600.15721@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 20:36:00 GMT
References: <11697.27f376d8@zeus.unomaha.edu> <1991Mar30.161854.27378@cbnewsk.att.com> <4072.27f7215c@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <4072.27f7215c@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown) writes:
>I bet if you stopped 100 C programmers, more than 50 of 'em would tell
>you that parentheses are part of the return statement, just like if,
>while, do, and for.  They're not.

They used to be, actually, and many of the role models :-) for C programmers
have habits dating back to the time when they were.
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