"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | > But, yes, you can't use it to *define* it. Think about how you'd | > introduce the function parameters. | | Right, so it's kind of pointless then, seeing as you have have to I guess "pointless" is in the eye of beholder. I've used that ability quite a lot in some projects, where a large number of functions sharing the same prototype has to be declared. | repeat the entire function prototype when you define it. It seems that | it would be logical to support defining the function and only | supplying the parameter names, given that their types are already | known from it being forward-declared, but C does not have that | ability. Too bad :-) Care to make a concrete proposal? There is no point in complaining if you can't improve over the situation... -- Gaby
