>Ty Sarna writes:
>> Still though, void main in "hosted" (~= userland) programs is SO common
>> that the standard might as well be changed to allow it.

>Many bad practices are common. A compiler warning or two and thirty
>seconds hacking one time too many will retrain people. I was a bit
>unclear on this point once, but a vicious compiler taught me the right
>thing.

As will spending any decent amount of time in a C++ environment, where
it's an error (not warning) to return the incorrect type, or not
return where a return code is declared.

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