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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: typedefs, etc. - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 03:26:13 EST
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#R:cincy:-116500:hpfcla:43800001:000:715
hpfcla!ajs    Jan  2 17:50:00 1984

I also prefer "return (a == b);" to a less-concise form.  But that's not
what  bugs me.  What I'd  like to know  is, why did the  authors  of the
articles  on the  subject  write  "return(  a == b );" as they  did?  In
English we don't( usually )use parentheses that way, and English is what
most of us are used to reading.

It seems commonsensical to me to use lexical forms when programming that
most approximate our natural  language.  Why do most programmers seem to
behave as if they  disagreed?  (See my recent  flames about  quoting and
commenting styles...)

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
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