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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: just to let you know...
Message-ID: <42653@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 07:31:45 GMT
References: <102102@tiger.oxy.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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sonenbli@oxy.edu (Andrew D. Sonenblick) writes:

>I simply had an array of booleans like this:  Boolean	monitor[3];
>simple enough.	However, in my code I hade this:

>Boolean    someBoolean,
>	   anotherBoolean;
>	   monitor[3];

>AHHHHG!  Note that there is a semi-colon after anotherBoolean!!   (it's
>embarrassing to think I was hunting for days to find the root of my problem)

>Think C (4.00) compiled this with no complaints (don't ask me what it
>thought monitor[3]; means, I don't know...) so it appears to be a bug.

Probably it thinks that monitor is an array of ints, since untyped variables,
parameters, and functions default to int...

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