Re: First basic program

["Dockeen" <dockeen at mchsi dot com>]

Here is a quote from a page from Bjarne that might 
be of some interest on the main returning an int front...


"Can I write "void main()"?
The definition 
	void main() { /* ... */ }

is not and never has been C++, nor has it even been C. See the 
ISO C++ standard 3.6.1[2] or the ISO C standard 5.1.2.2.1. 
A conforming implementation accepts 
	int main() { /* ... */ }

and 
	int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* ... */ }

A conforming implementation may provide more versions of main(), 
but they must all have return type int. The int returned by main() 
is a way for a program to return a value to "the system" that 
invokes it. On systems that doesn't provide such a facility the 
return value is ignored, but that doesn't make "void main()" 
legal C++ or legal C. Even if your compiler accepts "void main()" 
avoid it, or risk being considered ignorant by C and C++ programmers.

The quote comes from here:

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#void-main 

Wayne