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From: jholbach@wright.EDU (Jim Holbach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type checking in conditional expressions
Message-ID: <189@wright.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 18:29:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: wright.189
Posted: Mon Oct 19 18:29:09 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 00:32:02 EDT
References: <186@wright.EDU>
Organization: Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435
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in article <186@wright.EDU>, I mentioned a program 

> 	main()
> 		{ void function();
> 		  void (*name)();
> 		  name = function;
> 		  name = (0?name:function);
> 		}

which causes the compiler to complain that the operands of :
in the conditional expression are of incompatible operands.
	It has been pointed out to me that if "int" is 
substituted for "void" in both the declaration of function and
the definition of name, then the program will compile without
any complaints whatsoever.
	Curiouser and curiouser...