Re: how/why it is written ... int &numberRef; vs int& numberRef;

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: how/why it is written ... int &numberRef; vs int& numberRef;
Date	2019-07-17 12:53 +0100
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Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> Neither B nor BCPL had types.  C was originally "B with types".
>
> Is that the reason why in pre-standard C specifying types was
> optional, and if you didn't specify them, they defaulted to int?

Almost certainly.  In B you'd write

  auto a, b, c;

in a function a just

  a, b, c;

at file scope.  I am sure it was considered a good idea to be able to
convert B programs to "new B" and later to early C with as few edits as
possible.

-- 
Ben.

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          Re: how/why it is written ... int &numberRef; vs  int& numberRef; Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-07-16 05:59 -0700
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