What's wrong with printf() , exit() ? (oops)
Larry Cipriani
lvc at danews.UUCP
Mon May 12 03:49:33 AEST 1986
I wrote:
>> What's wrong with
>> printf("usage: foo bar\n"), exit(1);
>> as above?
>>
>Aside from style, exit is a statement syntatically but , requires
>expressions. The compilers I've used will accept this and do
>what you'd expect. Why is that ? Is this a special exeption ?
Oops. I mistakenly believed exit and return were both reserved words
in C but only return is. There may be compilers that won't accept it
but they would be wrong.
printf("usage: foo bar\n") , return 1 ;
seems reasonably "within C's style". Comments ?
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