K&R App A, par. 8 & 8.2, on Declarations, Defaulting.

[Greg "Bucket" Woods]

  I don't know what the manual or the standards say, but under no
circumstances should

a = 1;

be allowed as a valid declaration. Gramatically it is indistinguishable
from an assignment statement! If it were the first statement after the
declaration section, should it be flagged as a multiple declaration
error if "a" were declared above as a pointer to something, or should
it assign a pointer of the appropriate type to location 1? If it is legal,
it stinks.

--Greg
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