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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strcpy & declaration of functions
Message-ID: <660039@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 89 19:58:23 GMT
References: <4400001@tdpvax>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> This is for all you standards nuts out there.  When declaring FUNCTIONS
> which is better.   
>   extern int  atoi();
>     or
>   int  atoi();

Both are quite legal. From a purely coding-standard point of view, I 
use the first form for a function that is not in this compilation unit.
I use the second form when it is a forward declaration for a function
in this compilation unit.

Makes the source a *little* easier to read.
----
Shankar.