quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster

But we might aswell help him out with standard C++ if we''re going to give him examples.

Main does NOT take void as an argument and it doesn''t HAVE to return anything.

Cheers.

Oops. Looked like I hijacked this thread with my ambiguous post above. What I intended to say was that:-

1) main doesn''t take void as an argument

2) it doesn''t have to return anything. i.e. it is a special function in the sense that you don''t need to return an integer. If control reaches the end of main without finding a return statement it will have the same effect as return 0;

3) and I''ll add another point - main must have a return type of type int.

This post to comp.lang.c++ says it well

Happy C++ing