"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: | > | Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: | > | | > But the syntax of C doesn't have the language construct of | > "here's a | > | > label (identifier), here's the type of that label, and here's it's | > | > body". | | <snip> | | > You mean like this: | > typedef int F(int); | > F f; /* function "f" taking an int and returning an int. */ | | Yes, that's it, and it _does_ work :-) | | typedef int F(int); | | F f; | | f(bar) No, that is not the way you define a function. You can declare a function with a syntax like variable declaration; but you can't use that syntax to *define* the function. You need the full blown syntax. You can't get away with that one. -- Gaby
