The CeePlusPlus standards say main() shall return an int. The construct "void main()" occupies an unregulated area between "vendor-specific extension" and "ill-formed".
I have extracted a list of the real reasons, by me (PhlIp) and a few others, why students should take int main more seriously:
void main ~~~. Use int main:
- causes illiteracy in lab mice
- inspires television networks to move reality shows to the next logical step: Human sacrifice
- will transmit the contents of your internet cache folders to the nearest repressed fundamentalist priest
- will precipitate the return of the Joe Isuzu commercials (1999/11/20)
- causes destructive thread recidivism in technical newsgroups
- will attract biker gangs to your granma's neighborhood
- is a capitalist plot
- convinces white supremacists to stay "in the closet" about their thing for Reggae music
- nutates the precession of the equinoxes
- has designs on your kid sister
- makes killer bees think you smell like Chanel No. 5
- will inspire mass media to get over this current cheerleader/gymnast thing
- denies workers control over the means of production
- relaxes the prohibitions against split infinitives (1999/04/24)
- is caused by orbiting microwave platforms that target the thermal resonance signature of your neurons
- makes Disney executives have vivid anxiety dreams about not litigating enough
- makes folks >still< think alien beings make crop circles
- uses NFL broadcasts without the expressed written consent of Fox Network
- will make your loved ones think you have been possessed by aliens
- will make you blind, grow hair on your palms, and convince you to vote Republican
- increases the chances air traffic controllers accidentally cross flight corridors directly over your house
- makes street lunatics think you are part of the conspiracy against them
- points the Hubble Space Telescope at your house
- makes IBM think they have a prayer of solving the Protein Folding Problem in less time than the Sun takes to burn out
- makes George Lucas think we can tell the difference between any of his StarWars movies
- makes your balls drop off
- inspires a remote tribe in Borneo to carve big wooden statues that look just like you
- causes Phlip's big toe to swell up like a balloon
- inspires Hollywood executives to sign off on yet another insipid live-action remake of an insipid 1970s cartoon
- has been cruely tested on charismatic dolphins and adorable baby seals
- has already caused the return of Joe Isuzu, as I prophesied on this newsgroup last year (2001/04/04)
- dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria
But see
VoidMainIssues.
CategoryProgrammingLanguage CategoryLanguageImplementation
Void Main