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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint (was: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.125709.11558@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 12:57:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.055335.23091@athena.mit.edu> <13619@helios.TAMU.EDU> <5043@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <5043@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> You know, you _could_ help people who have to maintain old code by
> adding to your compiler an option to write prototypes inferred from
> the definitions out to a file.

I would prefer an option to get the old syntax with the new semantics.
(Yes, I know the result is no longer quite C.  But *I* would certainly
use it!  (I'd also like the default return type to be void instead of
int.))

Hmmm, perhaps this is more appropriate material for comp.lang.d....

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