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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: ANSI prototypes, the right choice...
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.031413.7338@kithrup.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 91 03:14:13 GMT
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In article <2941@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>     int myfunc PARAMS((int i, char *p));
>     int myfunc (i, p)
>     int i;
>     char *p;
>     {...}

>What's good about this style is:  (a) It is compatible with both ANSI
>and non-ANSI C environments;

And

	myfunc (PARAMS((char c, float f));
	myfunc (c,f) char c; float f; {}

is *not* right, it is a syntax error, as much as declaring myfunc to be a
float the second time is.

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