From: "Kurt Kuzba" 


From: john j dumas
JD>  How is the return statement organized so that it does
JD>  not need parentheses?
JD>  return 1;  // works

    You said it yourself.  It is a statement, and not a function.
 char *MyString;
 This does not need parentheses either.
 default: break;
 Nor does this.
 The return statement does not accept arguments.  The value given
 becomes the value of the function itself, like an assignment.
int main(void)
{
    return 0;
}
 No matter what else I do in main(), the only thing any calling
 function will see boils down to
 int main=0;
 Return assigns the value given to whatever register is used for
 passing an integer or long integer value in whatever given
 platform on which the C language is implemented.  Or I could be
 entirely wrong.  I'm just making things up now.

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