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>>5
No, but the use of unnecessary brackets -- because no operator is involved -- in combination with a language construct that does not require brackets, gives the impression that return is either a function (like exit), or that return requires brackets.

I bet there is a considerable number of novice C programmers who think return requires brackets.

>>5
Say you were to always see that the left hand side of an assignment always has outer brackets, "a = (2);", you might initially think this were mandatory,