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by pjmlp 295 days ago
Function prototypes came to ANSI/ISO C via the ongoing work on ISO C++.
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fuzztester 294 days ago
Doesn't matter where it came from - in the context of my previous comment.

I was talking w.r.t. the earlier version of C, and not in connection with C++.

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pjmlp 294 days ago
It does from historical purposes, how the C standard came to be, what are the decisions that turned K&R C into C89.
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fuzztester 286 days ago
Okay, I get it now.
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