From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: These parse errors are really getting annoying...
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:42:54 -0800
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HackerOC3 wrote:

> printf("y value?");
> int y;
> scanf(" %d", &y);
> printf("c value?");
> int c;
> scanf(" %d", &c);
> 
> what's wrong there?  "Parse error before int"
> what gives????!!!!!

Because in C you can only declare variables at the beginning of a block.

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