Question

This may be a stupid question but I was going through the K&R book to practice C a bit noticed that you don’t need to specify a return type for the functions. I thought C was a strongly typed language. How is this possible ? Is this something like type inference ? Maybe they let something like this because of implicit conversion but a bit confused to see this..

Eg:

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int c = funct();
}

funct()
{
    return 3;
}

Answer 1

Nothing that fancy; the default return type is int.