Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: .5 against 0.5f Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:37:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <86jyn0klyr.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <11bpvs7$1e6kc$2@dont-email.me> <11bqnvh$1np7s$1@dont-email.me> <11br5td$1to7l$1@dont-email.me> <11br792$1u7e5$1@dont-email.me> <11brgqf$21170$2@dont-email.me> <11brkco$21oj5$1@dont-email.me> <11bs4tj$26daj$1@dont-email.me> <11bs613$26knh$1@dont-email.me> <11bt7ff$2i0ag$1@dont-email.me> <11btm2a$2ojn1$2@kst.eternal-september.org> <11bttrp$2qvg6$1@dont-email.me> <11bu12l$2rgo2$4@kst.eternal-september.org> <11bu3kk$2svh8$1@dont-email.me> <868q3hmie0.fsf@linuxsc.com> <11bu8oi$2up7m$1@dont-email.me> <11bvqbn$3g0tj$1@dont-email.me> <11c0lsj$3q5il$6@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="4080017"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18E99fjgQEkOPdR0ZxO0gXrWy+o9sTKhXY="; posting-host="638443b520da3b64a0cb261b66252cdc" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1lBNJsiStQr6shM7Nu4OL7KfgEg= sha1:aHflthXUArOndlh7tg2nSyYx3w0= sha256:zzXzmD2F0ZxXRsnveS8INeRPMnmB7nBX9XFCTurwzrU= sha1:Poq5Qow4oAF8XRKUlNaZ3mfSYc4= sha256:8GMJ+YnJid5COtFH0ia13YqPngEWeamceqaiuQpa6RU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:403814 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:56:38 -0400, James Kuyper wrote: > >> They can lead to people thinking that return is a function ... > > There shouldn't be a return statement at all. Smashing together > the assignment of the function result with termination of function > execution seems to me a code smell. It must be terrible to have such a highly sensitive nose in a world with so many heathen programming language designers.