ANSI prototypes, the right choice...

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1991Feb11.030811.25074 at sugar.hackercorp.com> peter at sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You have it backwards. Lattice accepts mixtures. No other Ansi-compatible
>compiler I've used does...

How curious; an ANSI-conforming compiler has to accept mixtures.  Given
some attention to parameter types, a program which prototypes a function and
then gives an old-style definition of it is completely, 100% ANSI-conforming,
and any compiler which refuses to accept it is not.
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