This may be a habit picked up by people writing more-modern-than-C89 C code that also has to be compiled by MSVC. Since MSVC is foremost a C++ compiler it was s

This may be a habit picked up by people writing more-modern-than-C89 C code that also has to be compiled by MSVC. Since MSVC is foremost a C++ compiler it was stuck in C89 for a very long time (I think it's better now, but old habits probably die hard).