KR> i have a book put out by tartan laboratories at carnegie melion
KR> university in 1984 ie 6 years after k & r, but before ansi, and that
KR> makes no mention at all of prototypes only declaratives.

I have found a K&R 1st edition book at work, and I quote from
chapter 4.2...

The declaration
  
    double sum, atof();
    
says that sum is a double variable, and that atof is a function
that returns a double value.    


They're using the terminology "declaration" instead of
"prototype".
Either way, it is declarations/prototypes that allowed C to be
single pass.  BFN.  Paul.
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