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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Can you prototype main() ?????
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Date: 21 Sep 90 15:50:41 GMT
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rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:

>	void foobar (int irritating)
>	{
>		int irritating;
>	}

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

Try putting it in your ANSI C compiler.  It won't work there either.
"irritating" is defined twice in the same scope, which is illegal.
If your C compiler allows this, report it to the vendor as a bug!
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com