From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 3 13:46:14 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA29297 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 13:46:14 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29283 ; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 13:45:48 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA00459; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 22:45:26 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA17800; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 22:45:25 +0200 Message-Id: <199509032045.WAA17800@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: mal@algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist) cc: current@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eBones Changes coming soon! Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 22:45:25 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Why were ANSI prototypes bad? Just curious. Because the rest of FreeBSD was written in the (also ANSI) int foo(a, b) int a, b; { : } Style. ANSI protoypes are not bad, it is just a style convention. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grumble.grondar.za for PGP key