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From: eager@amd.UUCP (mike eager)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function prototypes (was: miscellaneous unrelated stuff)
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Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 05:46:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 17 05:46:28 1987
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In article <1169@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
   It seems to me that function prototypes violate a basic good
 rule about high programming language design which is : avoid having the
 user declare the same information more than once.  ....

>	extern foobar() : foobarmodule;
>or
>	foobar() : foobarmodule;
>
>In which case the user wouldn't have to include any new files since
>the information about what new files to use would be in the import from
>field of the external statement.
>
Unless I miss my guess, this is MODULA.
Yes, someone else has worked out some of the details.  See also ADA.