On Wed 13 Feb 2002 02:02, Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Note that most people are still using Kernighan & Ritchie syntax here.
> -I personally don't like this and especially in this documentation it
> -cannot be of harm, so let's use ANSI. Finally Tim Bunce has announced
> -interest in moving the DBI sources to ANSI as well.
> +Since Perl 5.6 requires support for function prototypes (ANSI or ISO or
> +Standard C), you should write your code using function prototypes too.

Perl requires ANSI-C (as of ***long*** before 5.6)
ANSI-C supports prototypes
We DBD authors /should/ use prototypes

I couldn't be more straight.

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