Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Always use braces Message-ID: <9286@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 5 Jan 89 22:37:17 GMT References: <5@rsoft.UUCP> <1071@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <861@quintus.UUCP> <9272@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <9272@smoke.BRL.MIL>, I wrote: >My approach has the following practical advantages: ... I inadvertently left out an important one: 5) It is easy to change to return function values different from EOF or the terminating magic character, for example true/false.