Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxle.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!mit-eddie!whuxle!mp From: mp@whuxle.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Block Structure Declarations Message-ID: <396@whuxle.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-May-84 19:28:10 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxle.396 Posted: Sat May 26 19:28:10 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 28-May-84 05:55:46 EDT References: <173@kovacs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany Lines: 7 This was fixed in the Draft ANSI C Standard I saw. It says: "Every formal parameter is in effect declared at the head of the compound statement constituting the function body, so redeclaration in the function body is an error." Doesn't prevent you from redeclaring the function name itself, of course... Mark