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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:06:31 +0200 (EET)
From:      Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   style(9) question
Message-ID:  <20060302105229.P83093@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>

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Hello!

   I apologize for asking here my question (it should belong to -questions,
but the most developers are available here, and I just hope it won't hurt).
What's the historical reason of the following style(9) advise:

 	Values in return statements should be enclosed in parentheses.

What's the rationale of this? From time to time I see small commits
just changing "return foo;" -> "return (foo);". I think the first form
is quite natural and not ambiguous. Shouldn't we remove this advise from 
style(9)?

Sincerely, Dmitry
-- 
Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua
nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE



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