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From: 8324155@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Can you prototype main()  ?????
Message-ID: <14227.26dc5b2f@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 07:17:50 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
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       I'm hoping someone can help me with this (hopefully) easy question
 about C++, and specifically Turbo C++.  I have been learning C++ and using
 the book "C++ Techniques and Applications" by Scott Robert Ladd, and when
 I tried to compile one of his example programs with Turbo C++ I got a
 "cannot overload 'main'" error message.  It seems the compiler choked on
 the author prototyping main (with the line:  int main();
 Is this a problem with Turbo C++, or is it not allowed in C++ and the
 compiler that the author used just accepted it ?  It works fine in Turbo
 if I remove the prototype.
 
    Thanks ahead of time,    Mark Frey