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Subject: Re: is a void function invocation a
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 17:10:00 EDT
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mcvax!jack (Jack Jensen) writes:
>Are there any good reasons for not making void a normal type?

I suspect the reason is that most uses of "real" types are not useful when
extended to void, and therefore the compiler is doing the user a favor by
flagging such uses as an error.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!ima!haddock!karl), The Walking Lint