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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: void declarations and casts
Message-ID: <6595@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 16:30:03 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6595
Posted: Mon Oct 26 16:30:03 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 22:24:53 EST
References: <359@targon.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 16
Keywords: void, casts, declarations, assignments

In article <359@targon.UUCP> romke@targon.UUCP (Romke Teerenstra) writes:
> My thoughts were : since void is a type, I can declare such a variable.

RONG

>So I can assign a value of that type to it.

RONG

>So I can cast something, say an integer, to it.

TRUE

While there are "void expressions", there are no "void variables".
Once you have "voided" a value, you can't do anything else with it
(except void it again).