Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:58:42 +0200 (EET) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: style(9) question Message-ID: <20060302204103.W46260@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> 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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Hello!
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Colin Percival 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)".
OTOH, our style doesn't recommend parentheses after "case" and type names;
indeed,
int (i);
extern char (j);
case ('1'):
looks ugly despite being perfectly legal (at least from GCC's POV).
Sincerely, Dmitry
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