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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:30:01 -0400
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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.

What behavior does your brain expect of the following code?:

	return(a+b)*2;

If you have any trouble with interpreting that code, you need to retrain
your brain.