Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes. This
kind of bugged me, because from other people's code that I've seen in
the past, almost all of them use function prototypes. The following also
bugged me. Let's say you have a file called main.c with only the main
function, and includes hello.h, to use functions within hello.c. So
hello.h should contain prototypes for the functions in hello.c, so when
main.c is compiled, there won't be any warnings. If there aren't any
prototypes in the header file, my compiler would assume the function
called with main() is extern and returns an int. I tried to explain this
to my teacher, but the answer he gave me is that I should just put the
whole function within the header file and not have any other *.c files.
I haven't seen anyone put whole functions within header files before. Am
I wrong about this or is my teacher wrong? Thank you.
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:12:41 +0200 (CEST), Steph Barklay
<do**@spam.mewr ote:
>Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes. This
kind of bugged me, because from other people's code that I've seen in
the past, almost all of them use function prototypes. The following also
bugged me. Let's say you have a file called main.c with only the main
function, and includes hello.h, to use functions within hello.c. So
hello.h should contain prototypes for the functions in hello.c, so when
main.c is compiled, there won't be any warnings. If there aren't any
prototypes in the header file, my compiler would assume the function
called with main() is extern and returns an int. I tried to explain this
to my teacher, but the answer he gave me is that I should just put the
whole function within the header file and not have any other *.c files.
I haven't seen anyone put whole functions within header files before. Am
I wrong about this or is my teacher wrong? Thank you.
Is this for real? I find it hard to believe that any such teacher
exists. If this is not a troll, you should, if at all possible, enroll
in another class with a different teacher. If this is not possible,
ask your teacher to monitor this newsgroup for a while.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what to suggest. Probably you
should drop the course, and study C on your own.
--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
On Aug 23, 11:40 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.i nvalidwrote:
Your teacher is 100% wrong, brain-dead, and beyond redemption. Only
fools put code in headers.
Only fools and C++ programmers ;)
Steph Barklay <do**@spam.mewr ites:
Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes. This
kind of bugged me, because from other people's code that I've seen in
the past, almost all of them use function prototypes. The following also
bugged me. Let's say you have a file called main.c with only the main
function, and includes hello.h, to use functions within hello.c. So
hello.h should contain prototypes for the functions in hello.c, so when
main.c is compiled, there won't be any warnings. If there aren't any
prototypes in the header file, my compiler would assume the function
called with main() is extern and returns an int. I tried to explain this
to my teacher, but the answer he gave me is that I should just put the
whole function within the header file and not have any other *.c files.
I haven't seen anyone put whole functions within header files before. Am
I wrong about this or is my teacher wrong? Thank you.
Your teacher is very very very very very wrong.
Ask him to explain section 4.5 of K&R2 (that's Kernighan & Ritchie,
_The C Programming Language_, 2nd Edition) (it starts on page 81),
which absolutely contradicts your teacher's claims.
--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
Old Wolf said:
On Aug 23, 11:40 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.i nvalidwrote:
>Your teacher is 100% wrong, brain-dead, and beyond redemption. Only
fools put code in headers.
Only fools and C++ programmers ;)
But you repeat yourself. :-)
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On Aug 22, 4:12 pm, Steph Barklay <d...@spam.mewr ote:
Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes. This
kind of bugged me, because from other people's code that I've seen in
the past, almost all of them use function prototypes. The following also
bugged me. Let's say you have a file called main.c with only the main
function, and includes hello.h, to use functions within hello.c. So
hello.h should contain prototypes for the functions in hello.c, so when
main.c is compiled, there won't be any warnings. If there aren't any
prototypes in the header file, my compiler would assume the function
called with main() is extern and returns an int. I tried to explain this
to my teacher, but the answer he gave me is that I should just put the
whole function within the header file and not have any other *.c files.
I haven't seen anyone put whole functions within header files before. Am
I wrong about this or is my teacher wrong? Thank you.
Your teacher is criminally insane. Notify the authorities right away.
On the other hand, this is my evil handiwork:
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#include <windows.h>
#else
#include <unistd.h>
#endif
#include "searchr.c"
#include "search.c"
#include "thread.c"
#include "searchmp.c "
#include "repeat.c"
#include "next.c"
#include "nexte.c"
#include "nextr.c"
#include "history.c"
#include "quiesce.c"
#include "evaluate.c "
#include "movgen.c"
#include "make.c"
#include "unmake.c"
#include "hash.c"
#include "attacks.c"
#include "swap.c"
#include "boolean.c"
#include "utility.c"
#include "valid.c"
#include "probe.c"
#include "book.c"
#include "analyze.c"
#include "annotate.c "
#include "bench.c"
#include "data.c"
#ifndef _MSC_VER
#include "dgt.c"
#endif
#include "drawn.c"
#include "edit.c"
#include "epd.c"
#include "epdglue.c"
#include "evtest.c"
#include "init.c"
#include "input.c"
#include "interupt.c "
#include "iterate.c"
#include "learn.c"
#include "main.c"
#include "option.c"
#include "output.c"
#include "ponder.c"
#include "preeval.c"
#include "resign.c"
#include "root.c"
#include "setboard.c "
#include "test.c"
#include "time.c"
#include "validate.c "
On the other hand, each of those files has headers with prototypes and
there are headers with prototypes at the top even of this file.
Some compilers can inline more aggressively if you make every file
available as a single giant block of source code.
"Richard Heathfield" <rj*@see.sig.in validwrote in message
news:ct******** *************** *******@bt.com. ..
Your teacher is 100% wrong, brain-dead, and beyond redemption.
Only fools put code in headers.
99% wrong; there are valid reasons for code in headers, such as
function-like macros or static inline functions. However, I doubt that the
teacher was thinking about those things.
S
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Steph Barklay wrote:
>
Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes. This
kind of bugged me, because from other people's code that I've seen in
the past, almost all of them use function prototypes. The following also
bugged me. Let's say you have a file called main.c with only the main
function, and includes hello.h, to use functions within hello.c. So
hello.h should contain prototypes for the functions in hello.c, so when
main.c is compiled, there won't be any warnings. If there aren't any
prototypes in the header file, my compiler would assume the function
called with main() is extern and returns an int. I tried to explain this
to my teacher, but the answer he gave me is that I should just put the
whole function within the header file and not have any other *.c files.
I haven't seen anyone put whole functions within header files before. Am
I wrong about this or is my teacher wrong? Thank you.
Either the teacher, or your interpretation of his words, are
totally balmy.
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Steph Barklay wrote:
Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes.
[...]
Two possibilities occur to me. First, you may have
misunderstood what the teacher said (the blame for this
could lie on either side, or on both). It would be a
good idea to discuss this matter with the teacher to clear
up any possible misunderstandin g.
Second, you may not have misunderstood at all, and
the teacher may actually have made this assertion. If so,
I recommend you drop the course: a teacher who utters this
sort of nonsense (other than as a pedagogic device intended
to elicit push-back, which really falls under Possibility 1)
is ignorant of his or her subject. This person may be able
to teach you something useful, but will teach you a lot of
nonsense along with it and leave you the task of separating
the one from the other unassisted.
--
Eric Sosman es*****@ieee-dot-org.invalid
Steph Barklay wrote:
>
Hi, I'm currently taking a data structures course in C, and my teacher
said that function prototypes are not allowed in any of our code. He
also said that no professional programmers use function prototypes.
That implies, or very nearly implies,
that professional programmers don't write C programs
with more than one file of source code.
It also suggests that your teacher has never
written a C program with more than one file of source code,
and thus is a neophyte programmer.
How old is this kid?
I hope that you're mistaken about what he said.
This
kind of bugged me, because from other people's code that I've seen in
the past, almost all of them use function prototypes.
The following also
bugged me. Let's say you have a file called main.c with only the main
function, and includes hello.h, to use functions within hello.c. So
hello.h should contain prototypes for the functions in hello.c,
so when
main.c is compiled, there won't be any warnings. If there aren't any
prototypes in the header file, my compiler would assume the function
called with main() is extern and returns an int.
I tried to explain this to my teacher,
but the answer he gave me is that I should just put the
whole function within the header file
and not have any other *.c files.
I haven't seen anyone put whole functions
within header files before. Am I wrong about this
No.
or is my teacher wrong?
He absolutely does not understand what header files are for,
and is giving very strong indications
that he has no experience with multifile C programs.
Thank you.
Again, I very much hope that you have misunderstood what he meant.
--
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