Unnecessary parenthesis

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In article <5253 at ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1 at ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>Since 'return' can return an expression, parentheses are always allowed
>(but never required).

This is not quite right.  A procedure may return a void expression.  But
parantheses may NOT enclose  a void experssion.  Thus statement:

     return ();

is malformed.  This is the reason that I chose not to use redundant parens
on returned expressions.

   Marv Rubinstein