this type of declaration of function is valid in C but why not in C++?
int sum(i,j)int i,j;
{
return i+j;
}
this type of declaration of function is valid in C but why not in
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this type of declaration of function is valid in C but why not in C++?
int sum(i,j)int i,j;
{
return i+j;
}
This is because that old-style function definition declares no prototype. That is, the caller would not know what parameter types the function expects.
In C++, that’s too much of a type safety miss. In particular, the FDIS says