can "a;" be a declaration?

[John Gilmore]

In article <3692 at utcsri.UUCP>, greg at utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) writes:
> In article <4647 at ism780c.UUCP> tim at ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> >         If "a" is a global, they have no problem:
> >
> >	a;
> >	main() {
> >		a = 1;
> >	}
> Declarations inside blocks must specify a type or a storage class.  I
> am not saying that this is perfectly consistent; however it is
> thoroughly documented.

Here the ANSI C draft has fixed things up.  ALL declarations must
begin with a storage class specifier or a type specifier.  No exceptions.
So the above example is not valid ANSI C, even though the Unix compilers
accept it.  I approve of this change.
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