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From: jbleaza%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jason Bleazard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sozobon C starter question
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.143748.13488@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 20:37:48 GMT
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Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <91107.154833JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu> J.J. Lehett <JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>     I am getting an error which I am not sure why with this line:
>
>     main( int argc, char **argy)
>
>    that says it is expecting a )
>
>    but if I change that to:    main()
>
>     I do not get that problem... any idea as to why?
>
>      Thanks in advance,
>
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Sozobon expects this really arcane method of passing parameters.
In the above example, try:

       main(argc, argy)
       int argc;
       char **argy;
       {
       }

Someone told me that this is the old method of passing parameters.
One advantage is that you can say
void foo(x, y, z)
int x, y, z;
{}
instead of
void foo(int x, int y, int z) 
{}

In other words, you only have to type int once.  (Yay)

-Jaysan