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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: consistency in declaration
Message-ID: <13752@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 19 Jun 89 19:02:33 GMT
References: <64@BLEKUL11.BITNET> <13732@haddock.ima.isc.com> <14544@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <14544@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jyegiguere@lion.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:
>>>[compiler refuses to accept a prototype with half-named args:]
>>>	void foo(int , int y);
>Personally I prefer the approach that a prototype either declares identifiers
>for all the parameters or leaves them all out.  I really can't see any reason
>for the inconsistent notation.

I agree, but personal preferences shouldn't be strictly enforced by the
compiler.  My recommendation is to downgrade it to a warning.  (The pANS
imposes no constraints on warnings, though personally I feel that everything
questionable should have an OPTIONAL warning attached to it.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint