On Friday, 18 November 2016 10:30:45 UTC-5, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> I think the book is trying to stress that it declares out but does not 
> declare err.  I agree that the sentence seems to imply that it does 
> not assign a value to out, but in fact it does both declare out and 
> assign a value to it. 
>

Indeed.  Apologies for the confusion.

(During copyediting, when reading aloud, I got into the habit of 
emphasizing the word immediately following "only" to help detect misplaced 
modifiers. In this instance the additional emphasis resolved the ambiguity 
the way I wanted it, but not the way one would normally read it.  Sigh.)

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