From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: Re: C oddity -- language and/or compiler - (nf) Article-I.D.: ima.281 Posted: Fri Jan 21 03:21:31 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 07:38:55 1983 #R:rabbit:-106700:ima:15900001:000:414 ima!johnl Jan 20 11:03:00 1983 What we have here is perfectly legal C. double a; /* Note the semi-colon! */ b, c, d; In external declarations, all of the specifiers are optional so that foo; defines foo to be, by default, "extern int foo;". I agree it's silly and perhaps should be illegal (or at least provoke a complaint from lint) but it's legit now. John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl