Dan Sommers wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:11:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> random...@fastmail.us wrote: > >>> (header files in the 1970s didn't even actually include function >>> signature information) - which did not even participate in >>> compilation at all. > >> If C compilers didn't use the header files, what were they for? > > The compiler did use the header files, but only for functions' return > types and other non-function-signature things (like macros and type > definitions).
I consider return type to be part of the function signature. The signature of a function is the parameters it accepts and the result it returns. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
