"Greg A. Woods" wrote:

> Yeah, just so long as you don't require me to rewrite my function
> definitions!  However I still think prototypes suck.  They're the wrong
> answer to the wrong problem.  That's a job for lint, not the compiler.
> If you want that kind of parameter checking and type coersion then you
> should use Pascal or Modula-N or anything else Wirth contributed to!  ;-)

Prototypes suck.  But you don't really need them for strong type checking.
There are languages where things are done right, C is just not one of them.

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        -- Lennart