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. -- Man is the best computer we can | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry