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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 11:28:24 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: style(9) question
Message-ID:  <20010516112824.B35292@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <p05100e0bb727313f1395@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:54PM -0400
References:  <20010515184940.A56109@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <p05100e0bb727313f1395@[128.113.24.47]>

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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
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