From -7731276640298178178 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,314ebdf2ff957e27 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 11:43:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: francis.glassborow@ntlworld.com (Francis Glassborow) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why int main()? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS Lines: 32 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <0t7ovkEq14p+Ewt4@robinton.demon.co.uk> References: <3E9821CE.8AC8B8C6@web.de> <7f2735a5.0304161119.2d516e7d@posting.google.com> <3EA7067C.BD7A6968@unet.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1051209823 8676 10.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2003 18:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:43:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 198lh7-0002Fm-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:43:42 +0000 X-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id EAA17525; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:43:35 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Reply-To: Francis Glassborow X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-User-Agent: Turnpike/6.02-U () X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.4 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,NOSPAM_INC, REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT version=2.41 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:18928 In article <3EA7067C.BD7A6968@unet.univie.ac.at>, Thomas Mang writes >A point against "void main()": >It violates the overloading rules because we'd have then 2 functions differing >only in the return type. >OTOH, main is special anyways, why not make it special regarding this too, >since there is hardly an ambiguity to expect in practice........ Actually, despite what the standard may say, I do not think that main is a function in C++ (it is in C though a curiously overloaded one). You cannot call it, you cannot take its address and the user cannot overload it. Has the feel of an entry point with function like syntax. We could get round many of people's quibbles with main if we wrote: Every program running in a hosted environment has a single entry point called main which has the following syntax: ... -- ACCU Spring Conference 2003 April 2-5 The Conference you should not have missed ACCU Spring Conference 2004 Late April Francis Glassborow ACCU --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]