From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T02:43:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernighan & Richie ---> prototypes ?

Hi,

In message "Re: Kernighan & Richie ---> prototypes ?"
    on Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:37:23 +0900, Johan Holmberg <holmberg@iar.se> writes:

|That must mean that the old-style is just a "rest of the past",
|and Ruby will not compile with a pre-prototype compiler any more.
|Correct ?

Correct.

|  What is holding back a conversion of the K&R code
|  to use prototypes ?

My preference.  I like prototypes.  But I dislike the new style
argument list, especially when the list becomes large with type
names.

							matz.