Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:12:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: style(9) question Message-ID: <20060302171112.A77029@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4407226D.3050901@freebsd.org> References: <20060302105229.P83093@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060302163633.H77029@fledge.watson.org> <4407226D.3050901@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Colin Percival wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: >> I can't really think of a good reason >> for return (foo) over return foo > > I'm not sure if this qualifies as a *good* reason, but writing "return > (foo)" is more consistent with other keyword usage: "if (foo)", "for (foo)", > "while (foo)", "switch (foo)". I also find myself doing search and replace on return values more on FreeBSD source than I do on other source. I.e.: s/return (0)/return (NULL)/ and that sort of thing. I think I would be less comfortable doing that without the parens. Again, whether that's just habit or a real reason is hard to say. Robert N M Watson
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