Curious about function prototypes...

[Henry Spencer]

> How much, and why, are old-style declarations disparaged in
> new-style code?  ...

Officially, the old-style declarations are in the standard primarily
for backward compatibility, with a strong hint that they will eventually
be removed.  In practice, it will be many years before implementors
even think seriously about rejecting them.
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