From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: void main ?
Date:	Mon, 07 Jul 1997 09:48:40 -0400
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Giovanni Resta wrote:

> I'm sorry I do not know what a troll is. (Apart in Tolkien tales...).
> Anyway I'm rather confident I'm not completely dumb as your kindly 
> answer slightly suggest :-).

i wasn't suggesting that your message was dumb. i was suggesting that it
was annoying, mostly because it sounded like so many others where people
say 'i don't get any errors/i don't care about the exit code ...' that
is why those comments are mentioned in the faq.

as for troll, according to http://www.gnofn.org/~tlewis/glossary.htm#T

Troll 
A person who posts only to inflame opinion is "trolling for flames".
Most are so obvious that only the most clueless "newbies" respond. 

it was mostly an ironic remark on what i was doing. i took the bait and
responded to a 'void main' message.

> While I'm an (allegedly:-) theoretical computer scientist
> I've also 18-19 years of programming experience on machines ranging
> from Commodore Vic-20 to Cray-T3D and I've used languages among
> APL,Algol,Basic,Cobol,Lisp,Forth,Fortran, and of course C.

i respect that. i basically misunderstood the intention of your post. by
the way, i started on a sinclair zx-80 in 1981 and later got a speccy.
we speccy people really don't like commies ;-)

> (3) I just wonder If anybody come out with an actual example of an 
> error caused (directly of indirectly) by void main().

i can't think of anything fatal. however, say you are writing a
front-end for a bunch of utilities that you spawn based on the user's
choices. wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell if the program at least
succeeded.

   -- Sinan

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