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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:05:58 -0400
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All right!  All right!  Enough!!!

I am the person who changed the definition of main.  At the time, we
had no plans of being compatible with anyone else's standard system.
On the other hand, we avoided gratuitious incompatibility and we just
plain missed the one for main.

Exit was changed to exits and it was unwise not to do something about
main, but it didn't cross my mind.  The reason is probably that we
were pushing for stronger-than-ANSI C, requiring prototypes, and I
knew we needed to make some changes because a different signature for
exit would cause trouble to existing programs (we changed creat to
create when we added the third argument, too) but I unconsciously knew
that the prototype of main wasn't in the headers and so I bet it just
never crossed my mind to change it.

Now please let that be the end of this discussion.  This group
deserves a higher signal to noise ratio.

-rob