Prototypes

[John Gordon]

	The purpose of a prototype is to explicitly declare what type the 
function returns (if any) and what types the function takes as args (if
any).  This makes it easier to detect errors involving incorrect returns
and arg passing to and from functions.


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John Gordon
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