[COFF] Re: C with Improvements :-)

On 23 Jun 2025, at 11:25 am, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2025, Warren Toomey via COFF wrote: [...] This will probably get me tarred and feathered, but I have a couple of gripes about C: Declaration of pointers: these days I prefer to write int* p; instead of int *p to make it clear that "p" is a pointer to an int. Heck, I've even seen such nonsense as this (fixed width font required!): int *a; int b; to make the names line up. And OK, not syntactical, but I loathe the dangling "{" as typified by K&R: if (...) { ... } All the arguments I've seen for this style are utterly specious, especially the one about saving a line on the screen; if so then why not move the "}" up to the end of the preceding statement and save another precious line? -- Dave