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- From: torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: meanings of "void" keyword
- Date: 8 Nov 1992 11:05:03 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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- Message-ID: <27297@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- References: <2214@sdrc.COM> <Bx8Cw8.5tB@portal.hq.videocart.com> <27264@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <721104887@sheol.UUCP>
- Reply-To: torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
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- In article <27264@dog.ee.lbl.gov> I claimed that
- >> `void' has two meanings in ANSI C ...
-
- Oops!
-
- In article <721104887@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
- >Um. I thought void had three meanings in ANSI C. The above two, and
- >
- > - A void prototype (eg: void f(void); ) ...
-
- Believe it or not, I actually wrote `three meanings', but then I could
- only think of two when I went to enumerate them, so I went back and
- `fixed' the claim. I had the feeling I was forgetting something....
-
- >In fact, these three uses are essentially independent.
-
- Yes; this is obnoxious and misleading, just like the peculiar use of
- `static' to affect function name scopes. But it is not that big a
- deal.
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