From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 06:33:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!upp1.onvoy!onvoy.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9qf6pp$36a$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BCB673A.11FD06D@boeing.com> Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Message-ID: <0FWy7.31191$ev2.37582@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:31:40 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:32:27 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14670 Date: 2001-10-16T13:32:27+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BCB673A.11FD06D@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says... > >I have used C compilers that do not give warnings for undeclared >variables by default; they are silently created as type int. I don't >know if this is still legal for standard C. I believe that's the way K&R (the original C) worked. It would also assume all parameters were int if you didn't say otherwise, and convert all parameters to that type. Combine that with implicit definition of functions if you forget to specify their prototype, and you can get some rather interesting bugs. There are still some K&R compilers floating around too. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.