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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:12:40 +0200
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On 17.06.2024 16:41, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>>
>> Moving forward, return 0 it is.
> 
> By the way, you might have retained return (exp); from old C.  C
> originally required the parentheses, but they got dropped quite early
> on.  The syntax in K&R (1st edition) does not require them, but almost
> all the code example in the book still have them!

This is an interesting observation! (That I can confirm.)

That's probably why originally I also used parenthesis.
I saw the examples but didn't inspect the syntax appendix.

But how did the early compiler behave?
Did they follow the code samples' syntax or the formal syntax?

> I took a while to drop them as I came to C from B where they were always
> required so I'd got the habit.

I dropped them as soon as I noticed that it's possible.

Janis