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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Func Protos with K&R Func Defs
Message-ID: <15365@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Mar 91 03:52:20 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.021715.18153@athena.mit.edu> <15354@smoke.brl.mil> <MLT9QB7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <MLT9QB7@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <15354@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>> This is not true.  The types must be compatible, but subject to that
>> constraint the use of "old-style definitions" is compatible with the
>> use of prototypes.

>Only if the prototype is in scope when it sees the definition.

Wrong.