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From: tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re: parens around sizeof arg
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 12:57:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 12:57:21 1985
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> Why are parentheses aroung the `expr' sloppy? I had been programming

Well, it is something that is semantically and syntactically
superfluous, much the same way that many PASCAL programmers like to
insert extra null statements at the end of program blocks.  The
parentheses serve at most an optical purpose.

						Thomas.