From 9170793778000600060 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,314ebdf2ff957e27 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 11:43:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!diablo.theplanet.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: rlankine@hotmail.com ("Risto Lankinen") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why int main()? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Nokia Lines: 24 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <3E9821CE.8AC8B8C6@web.de> <7f2735a5.0304161119.2d516e7d@posting.google.com> <3EA7067C.BD7A6968@unet.univie.ac.at> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1051209832 8696 10.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2003 18:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:43:52 +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 198lhG-0002G7-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:43:51 +0000 X-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id EAA17713; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:43:46 +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-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:53:08 EET DST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Apr 2003 08:01:39.0176 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC194E80:01C30A37] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD,INVALID_MSGID,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR, NOSPAM_INC,PRIORITY_NO_NAME,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:18930 "Thomas Mang" wrote in message news:3EA7067C.BD7A6968@unet.univie.ac.at... > > A point against "void main()": > It violates the overloading rules because we'd have then 2 functions differing > only in the return type. Not really because that, and int main(), would never coexist in a single program since there would still be just one main() function. Cheers! - Risto - --- [ 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 ]