Re: Whaddaya think?

James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

On 6/16/24 12:20, DFS wrote:
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On 6/15/2024 6:22 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:

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return(0);

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A minor style point:  a return statement doesn't require parentheses.
IMHO using parentheses make it look too much like a function call.  I'd
write `return 0;`, or more likely I'd just omit it, since falling off
the end of main does an implicit `return 0;` (starting in C99).

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Can't omit it.  It's required by my brain.

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The parentheses you're putting in are completely unrelated to the use of
parentheses in _Generic(), function calls, compound literals,
sizeof(type name), alignof(), _BitInt(), _Atomic(), typeof(),
typeof_unqual(), alignas(), function declarators, static_assert(), if(),
switch(for(), while(), do ... while(), function-like macro definitions
and invocations or cast expressions.  In all of those cases, the
parentheses are part of the grammar.  [...]

I'm pretty sure the "it" in "Can't omit it" was meant to refer
to having the return statement, not to the parentheses.