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From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kaz Kylheku" <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
service attack.
<large snip>

> Parentheses are *never*
> necessary in a return statement.

Really??

What about
return sizeof 3 + 4.3;
vs.
return sizeof (3 + 4.3);

Seems to me that parentheses in a return statement are
sometimes necessary!!