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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Coding layout query
Date: Fri,  8 Mar 2002 09:59:46 +0000
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andrew@mbmnz.co.nz (Andrew Simmons) writes:

> Not wishing to start a religious debate here, but I notice that in the
> Plan9 source code, the return type of a function is placed on a separate
> line from the function name when the function is defined:
> 
> int
> nurdge(int a)

The normal reason for this is that various automatic program scanners
will detect this formatting and know that "nurdge" is a function
definition.

Thomas