"exit 0;" - or - "exit (0);" ?

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

In article <331 at cartan.Berkeley.EDU>, ballou at brahms (Kenneth R. Ballou) writes:
> In article <1512 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner at batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
> >While K&R explicitly say that exit() is a function, I commonly see
> >the parens dropped.  Is that "legal"? Does it work on existing compilers?
> 
> 	Note that 'exit' is not a reserved word in (K&R) C.  Therefore, the 
> compiler should reject the construct  exit 0;  on at least two grounds. 

Perahps this poor soul is getting exit confused with return.  Return
does not require parentheses.  Exit in every implementation that I have
seen is indeed a function and requires "()" as a minimum.

-Ron