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   On 2025-11-14, Richard Harnden  wrote:   
   > I don't think I've ever had a non-static function prototype early in my   
   > code, then it being used, and then it's static defininition later.   
   >   
   > I've always had the static definition just before it's used and no   
   > prototype, static or not, at all.  Dunno if that's normal, or just the   
   > style I learnt.   
      
   Things happen in big(ger) projects. You think that the identifer   
   foo_parse is free for the taking. You put it into the "foo.h" header of   
   the foo module as an external declaration. Oops! There is already a   
   static helper called foo_parse in foo.c. Or somewhere else.   
      
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