Unnecessary parenthesis

[Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard]

In article <8209 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>	return 0;		/* intuitive */

To a FORTRAN programmer.

>	return(0);	/* one wonders why the () are there */

1) Because it looks consistent.
2) It's intuitive to a converted Pascal or PL/I programmer.
3) The programmer has gotten used to putting parentheses around just about
   everything.

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