Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >   And it's not like gcc didn't have similar-sounding error messages:
> > error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'x' with no type

> I've gotten a few of those and not understood them, actually. I don't 
> remember what I had, but having something more along the lines of "you 
> forgot an #include" would be a better error message, I think. :-)

  You can get that one if you write eg. "static x;"

  It should be rather clear: You have defined a static variable named 'x',
but with no type. (In C it would default to int, but the C++ standard forbids
omitting the type, which is what the error message is saying.)

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                                                          - Warp

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