Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Curious about function prototypes...
Message-ID: <1988Jun19.034925.7060@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <654@orion.cf.uci.edu> <8073@brl-smoke.ARPA>, <5808@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 88 03:49:25 GMT

> How much, and why, are old-style declarations disparaged in
> new-style code?  ...

Officially, the old-style declarations are in the standard primarily
for backward compatibility, with a strong hint that they will eventually
be removed.  In practice, it will be many years before implementors
even think seriously about rejecting them.
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