On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 09:02:36AM +0200, Christoph Mallon wrote:
>
> return with parentheses:
> Removed, because it does not improve maintainability in any way. There
> is no source for confusion here, so the rule even contradicts the rule,
> which states not to use redundant parentheses. Maybe, decades ago it was
> just a workaround for a broken compiler, which does not exist anymore.
FYI, the idea behind this rule is said to be to able to use
a macro return(), f.e. for debugging you then can do:
#define return(x) do { \
printf("returning from %s with %d\n", __func__, (x)); \
return (x); \
} while (0)
Given the this is a nifty feature and parentheses around the
return value don't hurt maintainability in any way IMO this
rule should stay.
Marius
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