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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Can you prototype main()  ?????
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Date: 21 Sep 90 02:22:46 GMT
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In article <6932@darkstar.ucsc.edu> daniel@cis.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
>In article <59517@bbn.BBN.COM> saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin) writes:
>>I don't think it make much sense at all to prototype main. You prototype a
>>function in order to call it - I don't know what you would get if you tried to
>>call main, 
>
>Again from section 3.4, ``The function main() may not be called from within a 
>program.''

Hummm... This looks like yet another one of these little C incompatabilities
which didn't quite make it into the list of the incompatabilities in
chapter 18.

My favorite one is illustrated by the following example:

	void foobar (int irritating)
	{
		int irritating;
	}

Put that in your C++ compiler!  Then look for this in chapter 18.  It ain't
there.
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