pset1 water get_int() problem

Question

Whenever I introduce int get_int() I get an error message: error: initializer element is not a compile-time constant int x = get_int()I have tried permutations of get_int(0 that have been suggested without success. What am I doing wrong? Example:

#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)

int x = get_int()

Answer 1

Simply put, the program isn't properly structured. There are no curly braces here to bracket the main() code. It should have the following structure:

#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    // all of the code for main goes between these curly braces.
    int x = get_int()

}

BTW, if you compile this code, you'll get a new error - unused variable x. You'd need to do something with it to get around that warning/error. Maybe a printf statement?

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