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[David Olofson]

On Saturday 16 December 2000 00:57, William Kendrick wrote:
> Someone said:
> > William Kendrick wrote:
> > > But you CANNOT do this!!!
> > >
> > >   int small_function(int arg)
> > >     return some_value;
> > >
> > > You NEED braces for functions, even if they're only one
> > > statement.
> >
> > How else will the compiler distinguish things like global
> > variable declarations, or function attributes?
>
> Huh?  Since when can any part of:
>
>   int small_function(int arg)
>     return some_value;
>
> be seen as a variable declaration!? :)

If you've tried writing a parser for a C-like language using yacc 
(GNU bison would be the most common implementation on GNU/Linux 
systems, I think) or similar, you'd see why. ;-)

Ok, i *would* be possible to do with some hacks, but it would 
increase the chance of minor typos leading to totally 
incomprehensible compile error messages. Not fun...


//David

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