Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:28:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Rodeo Red wrote:

> This appears to work great. However I'm more than a little puzzled as to why I even had
> to ask this question. I got all my advice about writing a sample program from two or
> three books about C++, none of which even mentioned any of this advice you are talking
> about. I also remember using rhide to build hello.exe without these changes. Is this
> because djgpp is just being more exact about the syntax ? Are these books somehow out of
> date ?

All of the above.  First, many books fail to mention these fine details.  
Second, the compiler will not always complain about some of these dubious 
practices, unless you compile with the -Wall option that turns on many 
optional warnings.