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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Can you prototype main() ?????
Message-ID: <1692@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 90 07:42:47 GMT
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In article <461@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
<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.

ACK!  I stand corrected.  I though that was legal ANSI C.  Apparently I
was wrong.  Sorry.

<If your C compiler allows this, report it to the vendor as a bug!

I just did.  Thanks Steve.

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