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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Excruciatingly simple programming question...
Message-ID: <2693@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 20:28:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <115522@linus.mitre.org> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org
(Duncan Thomson) writes:

>If you've included <stdio.h>, then the compiler should know what kind of
>arguments Write() and Read() are expecting, and it should automatically
>convert the int to a long int, right?  (I'm assuming that there would be a
>function prototype in the include file.)  Is this a weakness of the Manx
>compiler?  By the way, what's the story with Lattice - would it detect/
>correct this kind of error?

     Duh, what's a prototype?  :-)  Seriously, I'm used to working with
ancient compilers that never heard of prototyping, which explains my
meticulous hand-made style.  One of these days I'll have to upgrade to
a newer compiler - hopefully I won't slide into sloppy coding practices.
After that, who knows - maybe even a SOURCE LEVEL DEBUGGER!!!
Wheeeee...

     We Real Programmers must be masochists.  ;-)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.