>>Nitpick: Technically that's not correct ANSI C.
Who said I was writing ANSI? I'm an old C guy, so I write in K&R C...<grin>
You nailed me on the semi-colon. And I should have included stdio.h, but it
was a bit of a joke, not an entire program meant to be compiled.
Good catch, however. Not a bad idea to point out my out-of-date style to
prevent others from following the same path.
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Dylan Hardison
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:58 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Wanting to learn C - book suggestions?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:19:19 -0500, Ken Elliott
<kelliott4@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >>printf("\n");
>
> >>has more characters than
>
> >>echo ""
>
> >>plus compilation. Not to say it's a _bad_ method, though.
>
> Yes, but the C version prints nothing _so_ much faster...
>
> main() {prinf("doh!\n")}
Nitpick: Technically that's not correct ANSI C.
* The return type (int) should be specified.
* printf is not declared.
* printf really shouldn't be used for this, puts should be. Some (stupid)
implementations of varargs don't handle vararg functions with only
on argument.
* the semicolon after printf is missing.
* There is no return statement. main must return an integer value.
Though, at least you didn't write "void main".
That's so completely incorrect, and I can't say how many times I've
seen people type that on slashdot...
A correct implementation would be:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
puts("doh!");
return 0;
}
Sorry for being pedantic and nit-picky, I had to deal with some very
ugly non-standard C code today. :)
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