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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:45:28 -0700
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> On 6/16/24 12:20, DFS wrote:
>
>> On 6/15/2024 6:22 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>
> ...
>
>>>> 	return(0);
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> 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.