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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: parens around sizeof arg
Message-ID: <607@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 16:11:40 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.607
Posted: Sat Feb 23 16:11:40 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 04:02:40 EST
References: <8048@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland
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Summary: 

> Article <8048@brl-tgr.ARPA>, from cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA
+----------------
| /*
| > > (Hey, (guys), let's (not) put extra (parentheses (everywhere)))!
| > > sizeof thing
| > > sizeof(type)
| > 
| > Strictly speaking, that is correct syntax.  Still, C allows one to
| > parenthesise any expression.  Because "operators" like 'sizeof' and
| > 'return' are made up of letters, I like to put their operands in
| > parentheses.  Purely visual (not even syntactic) sugar.		;-)
| > 
| > Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}
| 
| I have to agree with Joe here. I think of sizeof as a compile-time
| funxion. Thus the args. Purely style.
| */

Style for you guys, necessity for others.  The only time I use sizeof is
in such expressions as, "sizeof(struct foo)"; and our compiler doesn't
realize that "struct" gets a following name, so "sizeof struct foo" gets
me a syntax error.

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