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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI prototypes, the right choice...
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.164636.22675@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7708@sugar.hackercorp.com> <15089@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Feb9.075215.26939@athena.mit.edu> <1991Feb11.030811.25074@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1991 16:46:36 GMT

In article <1991Feb11.030811.25074@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You have it backwards. Lattice accepts mixtures. No other Ansi-compatible
>compiler I've used does...

How curious; an ANSI-conforming compiler has to accept mixtures.  Given
some attention to parameter types, a program which prototypes a function and
then gives an old-style definition of it is completely, 100% ANSI-conforming,
and any compiler which refuses to accept it is not.
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