returning values and parentheses

[fluca1978]

From style(9) there is this statement:

Values in return statements should be enclosed in parentheses.

so that for instance:

return (eight);

I was wondering if this is just aesthetical or has some particular advantage from the C language point of view.

 

[fonz]

From a purely linguistic point of view I see absolutely no point whatsoever in doing that, so my money is on aesthetics. Another reason I can think of is that there might be some kind of automated documenting (or other processing) system that benefits from (or requires) it.

 

[SirDice]

I'm no programmer but I think it's common to use the function(argument) notation. Putting the return value in parentheses just keeps things consistent.

 

[cpm@]

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061293.html.

 

[fluca1978]

This seems the more enlightnening answer in the thread about the usage of parenthesis.