On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:43:50PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:

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> I don't know who invented sparse, but I like this form of return.
> 1 - It saves me the curly brackets and extra return line. But mainly
> 2 - It is a programing statement that says: "Me here I'm an equivalent 
>   to that other call". So if in the future that inner function starts
>   to return, say, an error value, with the first style the compiler will
>   error. But with the second style the new error return will be silently
>   ignored. So these are not equivalent replacements. The former is a much
>   stronger bond between the caller and the callie.

3.  6.8.6.4(1): A return statement with an expression shall not appear in
a function whose return type is void.

Write in C, please.
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