prototype my function, please

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <2672bfbb.6b94 at petunia.CalPoly.EDU> cknight at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU
(King Claudius) writes:
>karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>?My opinion: leave it out, and if the compiler doesn't provide a way to
>?suppress the warning, then complain to the vendor.  Since it is very common to
>?leave main() with exit(), and since this is a defensible programming style,
>?the compiler should allow it--even if it has to make main() a special case.
>An easier way to do this is to declare main as returning void...
>
Bringing us back to last week's discussion of declaring main as void.  I think
Karl had the right idea.  No matter how elegant it is to think of it otherwise
main is not the same as other functions and a few special rules (in a hosted
environment) are not unreasonable.

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