X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Michael Wahl Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++,alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ Subject: Re: More than one letter input Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:21:15 +0100 Organization: PicoQuant Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3C22564B.CADDE608@pq.fta-berlin-nospam-de-> References: <91509768 DOT 0112031721 DOT 1481a4ee AT posting DOT google DOT com> <9ui7n3$bsg$1 AT planja DOT arnes DOT si> <9ui8hv$iuu$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> <9ui9j0$d5h$1 AT planja DOT arnes DOT si> <9uimj9$nmr$2 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> <9uknvi$f6t$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> NNTP-Posting-Host: quantum.pq.fta-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: rhodos.FTA-Berlin.de 1008886947 5784 141.16.70.115 (20 Dec 2001 22:22:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT rhodos DOT fta-berlin DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2001 22:22:27 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Martin Stromberg wrote: > > Bart Kowalski (me AT nospam DOT com) wrote: > : "Martin Stromberg" wrote in message > : news:9uimj9$nmr$2 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se... > : > Goran Bervar (n DOT e DOT b DOT e DOT r DOT e DOT m AT yahoo DOT com) wrote: > : > : "Martin Stromberg" wrote in message > : > : > That's news to me. And I think it's very very wrong. You must return > : > : > something from main() if you want to have a predictable error from > : > : > your program. > : > > : > : Nah. ISO-IEC 14882, §3.6.1-5 "[...]If contol reaches the end of main without > : > : encountering a return statemnet, the effect is that of executing return 0;" > : > > : > Ok. So we have another difference between C and C++. > > : The new C standard allows this as well. > > You're right. Sorry for the misinformation. > yeah, and the innocent OP was about echoing a string. great help wasn't it?