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[karl at haddock]

dg_rtp!throopw (Wayne Throop) writes:
>(As a small nit, I'd druther that the draft standard would allow a void
> expression to be cast to void, but that's a fairly small quibble.)

Void to void is illegal?  Sonofagun, you're right, and they even made it
explicit.  How strange.

Here's another restriction I just encountered: you can't typedef to void.
This is probably because typedef is syntactically a storage class specifier,
so it "looks like" an attempt to declare a void variable.

I was trying to declare "typedef void dead;" so that I could distinguish
between functions that return nothing (void perror(char *), setbuf(FILE *,
char *), nullf(void)) from those that don't return (dead exit(int),
abort(void), longjmp(jmp_buf, int)).  Again, it's a small quibble; I'll
just use #define instead.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!ima!haddock!karl), The Walking Lint