lint (was: Funny mistake)

der Mouse mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Tue Mar 26 22:57:09 AEST 1991


In article <5043 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> You know, you _could_ help people who have to maintain old code by
> adding to your compiler an option to write prototypes inferred from
> the definitions out to a file.

I would prefer an option to get the old syntax with the new semantics.
(Yes, I know the result is no longer quite C.  But *I* would certainly
use it!  (I'd also like the default return type to be void instead of
int.))

Hmmm, perhaps this is more appropriate material for comp.lang.d....

					der Mouse

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