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From: fxsdb@acad3.alaska.edu
Subject: Re: Prototypes local or global opinions wanted
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 17:24:06 GMT

In article <6592@trantor.harris-atd.com>, mvm@caesun6.harris-atd.com (Matt Mahoney) writes:
> In article <1991Jun20.202241.7531@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
>   draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) writes:
> 
>>I'm interested in what others think of the practice of declaring
>>function prototypes locally within a procedure.
> 
> Functions are always global, so their prototypes should be global too.
> 
Functions can be declared locally with local prototypes which was, I believe,
the focus of the question.  I much prefer global functions, as this encourages
writing general functions which are reused throughout the code, and can easily
be #included.
> --------------------------------
> Matt Mahoney, mvm@epg.harris.com
> #include <disclaimer.h>
   -Scott (fxsdb@acad3.alaska.edu)