Bill Birrell wrote in a message to Simon Law:
 >         Wait a second.  Is encouraging the use of this
 > because you don't have to specify a type a good thing?
 BB>     The default type for functions to return is int. If you don't
 BB> specify a type, the default comes into effect. Nothing wrong with
 BB> that at all, even if it is a bit old-fashioned.
What's wrong with is that in the next revision of the C standard it will most 
likely be prohibited.
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs@village.uunet.be
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