From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: QUESTION: General Syntax
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 21:42:17 -0800
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George Foot wrote:

> Zaphod Beeblebrox (zaphod AT evansville DOT net) wrote:
> 
> : Why won't this compile?  I get an unusual parser error at the first {.
> : How do I fix this?
> 
> Delete the semicolon after the ) and put "int " before "main()".

The lack of a return type is okay in this case; function prototypes or
declarations default to return type int if not specified.  It's unclear,
but it's perfectly legal ANSI C/draft standard C++ syntax.

You're right about the extraneous semicolon, of course.

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