From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 18:58:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B663E37B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CDE356ACBE; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:28:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:28:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: style(9) question Message-ID: <20010516112824.B35292@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010515184940.A56109@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:54PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 15 May 2001 at 15:17:54 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:49 PM +0100 5/15/01, j mckitrick wrote: >> Why does style(9) put parentheses around return values? > > Apparently, some very early versions of C required this. Specifically, versions before about 1973. So why do we still do it? I don't know. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message