Return statement in C

[utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!mayer]

Recently I've seen several complaints on the net about the C "return"
statement requiring parentheses.  According to reference manual section
of the Kernighan and Ritchie book (page 203):

	A function returns to its caller by means of the return statement,
	which has one of the forms

		return ;
		return expression ;


No parentheses are required by the language (or by the 4.1 C compiler).
I think the confusion is caused by the examples in the tutorial section
of the book.

					Jim Mayer
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