What is this strange function definition syntax in C?

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Published on 2010-06-10T16:10:05Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 16:12 UTC
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I've seen a few function definitions like this recently while playing with GNU Bison:

static VALUE
ripper_pos(self)
    VALUE self;
{
    //code here
}

Why is the type of self outside of the parenthesis? Is this valid C?

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