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Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ?

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Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> writes:
>On 2017-06-15, luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The sine qua non of a C program is its entry point, main().
>> Much discussion and argumentation have gone into the details
>> of the declaration part. But I'm much more interested in the
>> body. What's your favorite or ideal example of the perfect
>> main() function?
>>
>> Here's mine. For a hypothetical program to do something or other.
>>
>> int main(){
>>     return init()
>>         && run();
>> }
>Well,
>int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
>    return init(argc,argv) && run();
>}

Or if you want a non-boolean exit code from run
to be used as the exit value:

int
main(int argc, const char * const *argv)
{
    return init(argc, argv), run();
}

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[poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 22:30 -0700
  Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2017-06-15 06:14 +0000
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 00:06 -0700
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-15 12:43 +0000
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 06:32 -0700
        Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-15 14:03 +0000
          Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-15 10:07 -0400
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-15 15:47 +0100
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-06-16 23:47 -0700
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 18:32 +0800
  Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 06:31 -0700
  Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 16:18 +0200
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 07:35 -0700
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 17:35 +0200
        Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 08:41 -0700
          Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 21:18 +0200
            Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 12:39 -0700
            Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 19:58 -0700
        Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 17:01 +0100
          Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2017-06-15 16:13 +0000
            Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 17:42 +0100
              Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 21:21 +0200
                Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 20:48 +0100
                Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 20:55 +0100

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