Unnecessary parenthesis
Arthur David Olson
ado at elsie.UUCP
Sun Jul 10 03:51:30 AEST 1988
I leave out the parentheses in a
return whatever;
statement; this ensures that if I mistakenly write
retunr whatever;
I'll get a warning at compile time--along with a line number--rather than
an "Undefined: _retunr" error at link time (with no indication of where the
error is) as would be true if I wrote
retunr(whatever);
(which the compiler would take to be a function call.)
Of course this advice applies only to those of us who make mistakes.
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