Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: ANSI prototypes, the right choice... Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 91 11:31:34 GMT References: <7708@sugar.hackercorp.com> <15089@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Feb9.075215.26939@athena.mit.edu> <1991Feb11.030811.25074@sugar.hackercorp.com> Lines: 29 >In article <1991Feb11.030811.25074@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Feb9.075215.26939@athena.mit.edu> scs@adam.mit.edu writes: >> Since compilers may issue any warning >> messages they want to, I suspect that Lattice is just trying to >> prod people towards the Party line. > >You have it backwards. Lattice accepts mixtures. No other Ansi-compatible >compiler I've used does... including Manx. Note I'm *NOT* condoning mixing styles, but I just want to report that GCC will support a mixture. In fact, the GCC manual states that one reason this is allowed is because UNIX source code is not 100% ANSI compliant. It reports that very few programs compile with the strict ansi setting on the compiler. >Please, folks. It gets tiring fixing broken code... either go all the way >with ANSI or stick with K&R. I'd have to second that, although fixing the code is not too terribly hard. Sigh. Maybe I need to buy the new version of K&R... >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -- ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu {chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander) War in gulf: newpath 288 396 216 0 360 arc 288 612 moveto 288 180 lineto 288 396 moveto 136 244 lineto 288 396 moveto 440 244 lineto 36 setlinewidth stroke showpage