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From: robbie.matthews@f1701.n7802.fido.oz.au (Robbie Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: RE: ANSI C PROTOTYPE
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Date: 9 Nov 90 23:49:48 GMT
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Original to: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Re: OldStyle vs Newstyle.{
1) In Ansi C you can use either type.
 2) If you are used to pascal or anything like that, you would prefer
it that way anyway.
3) It gives the compiler **MUCH** stronger type checking, which has saved me an
awful lot of time once I worked out what was involved.
(I am alway passing a pointer instead of an integer, or vice versa.
I am more than happy for the compiler tell me when I have done so.)
 
It strikes me that the question is one of personal preference, and you willever
get far arguing about that.

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