From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CIN COUT
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 08:34:52 -0800
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Dazzling Dazz wrote:

> wouldn't you have to declare main as a void or int? Like this:

Actually, you _have_ to declare it as returning int.  Not doing so is an
draft standard C++ violation.

Not specifying the return type defaults to int.  The program posted has a
no value returned error, but nothing more.

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