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  • C Christian Graus

    Daniel Turini wrote: Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: void SomeFunc(void); This is C++ style. It's not C++ at ALL, nor can I find an example in Stroustrup where he declares void as the parameters. I always thought that declaring void was C, I've never seen it in a C++ program. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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    Exactly! Which is why I asked why MS are now doing this with their VS.NET ClassWizard - VC6 never bothered...


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    • C Christian Graus

      Daniel Turini wrote: Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: void SomeFunc(void); This is C++ style. It's not C++ at ALL, nor can I find an example in Stroustrup where he declares void as the parameters. I always thought that declaring void was C, I've never seen it in a C++ program. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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      Anna
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      Christian Graus wrote: I always thought that declaring void was C, I've never seen it in a C++ program. You haven't looked at any of my source then. ;) Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
      - Marcia Graesch

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        Christian Graus wrote: I always thought that declaring void was C, I've never seen it in a C++ program. You haven't looked at any of my source then. ;) Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
        - Marcia Graesch

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        Christian Graus
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        Anna :) wrote: You haven't looked at any of my source then. Fair enough... I knew it could be done that way, you understand, it's just that with all the people I have worked with, all the code I have downloaded and all the books I have read ( including both from Stroustrup ), I've never seen it used. I don't think it's particularly wrong, only void main is actually *wrong*, but I see a fair bit of it, and as I say, no int main(void) Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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        • C Christian Graus

          Vagif Abilov wrote: main function can be declared as returning void or int both in C and C++. Wrong. void main is an aberation tolerated by bad compilers such as VC++. Post an example with void main into comp.lang.c++, and watch how many people jump to tell you that is not C++, as defined by the standard, at all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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          John Burton
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          Post almost *anything* into comp.lang.c++ and see how many people jump on your post. I have to say it's the most unhelpful group on usenet. The people there seem to take much more interest in putting people down than it trying to help them.

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            Post almost *anything* into comp.lang.c++ and see how many people jump on your post. I have to say it's the most unhelpful group on usenet. The people there seem to take much more interest in putting people down than it trying to help them.

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            Sounds just like 99% of the Linux community! ;)


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            • J John Burton

              Post almost *anything* into comp.lang.c++ and see how many people jump on your post. I have to say it's the most unhelpful group on usenet. The people there seem to take much more interest in putting people down than it trying to help them.

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              Christian Graus
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              That is probably true, but I suspect it's partly because they are sick of being asked Windows programming questions. Either way, void main is plain wrong, that is all I was trying to say. And while it can be daunting, comp.lang.c++ is a hell of a good place to improve your C++ skills. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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              • C Christian Graus

                Anna :) wrote: You haven't looked at any of my source then. Fair enough... I knew it could be done that way, you understand, it's just that with all the people I have worked with, all the code I have downloaded and all the books I have read ( including both from Stroustrup ), I've never seen it used. I don't think it's particularly wrong, only void main is actually *wrong*, but I see a fair bit of it, and as I say, no int main(void) Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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                jan larsen
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                Stroustrup had an article in CUJ a couple of months ago on the subject "C and C++ compatibility", he mentions the empty parameter list vs. the void parameter list and one of them is supposed to mean that the function may take a parameter of any type, but I can't remember which... "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

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                • C Christian Graus

                  Anna :) wrote: You haven't looked at any of my source then. Fair enough... I knew it could be done that way, you understand, it's just that with all the people I have worked with, all the code I have downloaded and all the books I have read ( including both from Stroustrup ), I've never seen it used. I don't think it's particularly wrong, only void main is actually *wrong*, but I see a fair bit of it, and as I say, no int main(void) Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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                  Anna
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                  Having never read a C++ book until after I learnt the language :eek: it just made sense to me that if you have to specify that a method returns void, it was more consistant to specify it for methods which take no parameters also. :) As it's not mandated either way by the language spec, it really comes down to personal style. It is notable though that if you try to declare a C# method with parameter "void" the compiler barfs at you..which only goes to reinforce one of your earlier sigs. ;) Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
                  - Marcia Graesch

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                  • L Lost User

                    Since upgrading to VS.NET I have noticed that any classes I add using the "Add New Class" wizard will use void for functions with no params (such as constructors/destructors). Personally, I haven't bothered doing this sonce my C days, so my question is - are there any benefits to void? What do you prefer for your member functions: void SomeFunc(void); or void SomeFunc();


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                    Marc Clifton
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                    in C#, void SomeFunc(void) is not a legal syntax. A parameterless function must be declared void SomeFunc(). It drives me crazy, especially because I like the first way to explicitly say "this function takes no parameters". Oh well. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.

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                      in C#, void SomeFunc(void) is not a legal syntax. A parameterless function must be declared void SomeFunc(). It drives me crazy, especially because I like the first way to explicitly say "this function takes no parameters". Oh well. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.

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                      Me too. X| Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
                      - Marcia Graesch

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                      • J jan larsen

                        Stroustrup had an article in CUJ a couple of months ago on the subject "C and C++ compatibility", he mentions the empty parameter list vs. the void parameter list and one of them is supposed to mean that the function may take a parameter of any type, but I can't remember which... "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

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                        jan larsen wrote: one of them is supposed to mean that the function may take a parameter of any type, but I can't remember which... See my post above. Dave.

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                        • L Lost User

                          Since upgrading to VS.NET I have noticed that any classes I add using the "Add New Class" wizard will use void for functions with no params (such as constructors/destructors). Personally, I haven't bothered doing this sonce my C days, so my question is - are there any benefits to void? What do you prefer for your member functions: void SomeFunc(void); or void SomeFunc();


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                          From the C++ standard: If the parameterdeclarationclause is empty, the function takes no arguments. The parameter list (void) is equivalent to the empty parameter list. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

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                            From the C++ standard: If the parameterdeclarationclause is empty, the function takes no arguments. The parameter list (void) is equivalent to the empty parameter list. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

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                            Note: void Func (); Means two different things to C and C++ Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

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                            • V Vagif Abilov

                              main function can be declared as returning void or int both in C and C++. If you declare it as int, you let your program return a value (typically an error code) that operating system or calling process can use. Vagif Abilov MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway Hex is for sissies. Real men use binary. And the most hardcore types use only zeros - uppercase zeros and lowercase zeros. Tomasz Sowinski

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                              Eddie Velasquez
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                              Vagif Abilov wrote: main function can be declared as returning void or int both in C and C++ Returning void is not standard C++. The standard C++ version of main is

                              int main()
                              {
                              }


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                              • L Lost User

                                Since upgrading to VS.NET I have noticed that any classes I add using the "Add New Class" wizard will use void for functions with no params (such as constructors/destructors). Personally, I haven't bothered doing this sonce my C days, so my question is - are there any benefits to void? What do you prefer for your member functions: void SomeFunc(void); or void SomeFunc();


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                                Maximilien
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                                I don't care, I decided to use only the following prototype for all of my C functions, and use casting till death!

                                void someFunc( const void * const * const args )
                                {

                                }

                                and deal with it later ! Max.

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                                  Since upgrading to VS.NET I have noticed that any classes I add using the "Add New Class" wizard will use void for functions with no params (such as constructors/destructors). Personally, I haven't bothered doing this sonce my C days, so my question is - are there any benefits to void? What do you prefer for your member functions: void SomeFunc(void); or void SomeFunc();


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                                  Eddie Velasquez
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                                  Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: void SomeFunc(void); This isn't C++ style it's C style


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                                    I don't care, I decided to use only the following prototype for all of my C functions, and use casting till death!

                                    void someFunc( const void * const * const args )
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                                    }

                                    and deal with it later ! Max.

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                                    Alvaro Mendez
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                                    :-) Well good for you! But shouldn't you be returning void*? Regards, Alvaro


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                                    • J jan larsen

                                      Stroustrup had an article in CUJ a couple of months ago on the subject "C and C++ compatibility", he mentions the empty parameter list vs. the void parameter list and one of them is supposed to mean that the function may take a parameter of any type, but I can't remember which... "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

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                                      Christian Graus
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                                      I have that issue, I may pull it out. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

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