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kevin_thibedeau on Nov 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git's initial commit

In the C grammar, braces denote compound statements. Control flow statements can take any type of statement as their body rather than just the compound variety.

PurplePanda on Nov 24, 2014 [–]

It confuses me that it doesn't work for functions. like

    int main() return 0;

pdw on Nov 24, 2014 | [–]

In K&R C, the function braces serve to separate parameter declarations and local variables:

    int main(argc, argv)
      int argc;
      char **argv;
    {
      int local;
    }

PurplePanda on Nov 25, 2014 | | [–]

Thanks, I haven't seen that syntax before.

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