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Re: Coding Standards are ignorant

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From: Kai Henningsen
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:11
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kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze)  wrote on 08.03.96 in <KANZE.96Mar8125719@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>:

> We didn't miss it, we just don't agree:-).  Except for a relatively few
> people, a program with `void main()' is a legal ANSI C program, too.
> IMHO, talking about ANSI C is about the same as writing `void main()';
> it generally works, and most people/compilers will know what you are
> talking about, but that doesn't make it right.

You misspelt "it generally doesn't work, and most compilers won't know  
what you are talking about".

It's people who usually don't check return values that don't notice that  
it doesn't work.

Kai
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Date: 13 Mar 1996 18:11:00 +0200
From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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