Re: Whaddaya think?

On 2024-06-17, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 6/16/24 12:20, DFS wrote:

On 6/15/2024 6:22 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:

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).

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

 I think DFS might mean that they find themselves unable to omit the
unnecessary return 0 statement entirely.
 I also hate it; I feel that the implicit return 0 in main is a
misfeature that was added due to caving in to bad programmers.
 Making int main(void) { } correct is like legalizing weed.
Potheads are still potheads. Since I'm not one, I write a
return statement in main.