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From: alan@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Declaring argument types
Message-ID: <1821@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 15:56:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.1821
Posted: Tue Sep 13 15:56:53 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Sep-83 22:43:20 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Well, if we want the declaration to be given in the same format as
the definition, wouldn't it be better to say

	extern char *foo(x, p)
		int x;
		struct bar *p;

than to change the way functions are defined?  This would be more
difficult to parse, though.  You could always say

	extern char *foo(x, p)
		int x;
		struct bar *p;
	{}

to make life easier for yacc.


	Alan Driscoll
	Bell Labs, Murray Hill