Re: Help a friend with some c code

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 02/14/04

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    Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:24:34 +0000 (UTC)

    Paul F. Johnson wrote:

    > Arthur J. O'Dwyer did utter the following words of wisdom:
    >

    <snip>

    >> Oh, and one more thing:
    >>
    >> return 0;
    >
    > Nope. C99 and the C++ standards are both happy without return 0 - if it's
    > missing, it's implicitly added in.

    Just because the language provides a feature, that doesn't mean you have to
    use it. An explicit return value shows good style. 

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