From:	Dave Bird <dave AT xemu DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Duh
Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:15:16 +0000
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In ar<36CEADC5 DOT 7422E668 AT xyz DOT net>, Bjørn Hansen <viking AT xyz DOT net> writes
>> #include <iostream.h>
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     cout<<"Hello world"<endl;
>>     return 0;
>> }
>
>I havn't done a whole bunch of progremming in C++ so I was wondering why you
>declared main as void and then have it return a value?

 Whoops -- because he goofed.  Having void main(), or sometimes having
 int main(){ ..... return n; } are both acceptable.

 Have a void function return a value isn't!


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