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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
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From: <okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
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> I should have asked why C99 employed _fixed_ definition as the main()'s
> return value to INT only.  I don't understand it, if the answer is "practice".

i do.  it was agreed on by a committee who wanted to live in the past.

doug will not agree with me, but i understand where he's coming from.

C is old.  it's time to move on.  been like that for a long time.