Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: _parameters Message-ID: <11717@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 1 Dec 89 00:30:03 GMT References: <970@sdrc.UUCP> <30.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In various recent articles: >What about the library prototypes that are coded "int foo( int x, int y )" >when they should be "int foo( int __x, int __y )"? It may be worth reminding people that the parameter identifiers are optional, so one could specify: int foo( int, int ); By the way, there IS a prohibition against the program redefining keywords before including standard headers.