mayer (10/28/82)
Recently I've seen several complaints on the net about the C "return" statement requiring parentheses. According to reference manual section of the Kernighan and Ritchie book (page 203): A function returns to its caller by means of the return statement, which has one of the forms return ; return expression ; No parentheses are required by the language (or by the 4.1 C compiler). I think the confusion is caused by the examples in the tutorial section of the book. Jim Mayer seismo!rochester!mayer allegra!rochester!mayer