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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!genesis.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Why doesn't this compile?
  5. Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 23:23:16 GMT
  6. Organization: none
  7. Message-ID: <827450596snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  8. References: <4igck9$idj@masala.cc.uh.edu> <fcusack-1803960606510001@mudskipper.cac.psu.edu>
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  13.  
  14. In article <fcusack-1803960606510001@mudskipper.cac.psu.edu>
  15.            fcusack@tdx.org "frank." writes:
  16.  
  17. >> Here's the function header line:
  18. >> 
  19. >>         char evalchar(cnum)
  20. >>         int cnum;
  21. >> 
  22. >Are they actually teaching you this? This is not ANSI C, and you should
  23. >complain vehemently.
  24.  
  25. Actually it is perfectly legal ANSI C, it just isn't a prototype (and
  26. should be discouraged).
  27.  
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  30. Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
  31. Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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