15 May
2017
15 May
'17
10:54 a.m.
On Mon, 15 May 2017 14:35:34 +1000 Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 13 May 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:
Sorry, I was less than clear. I was just doing a thought
experiment about an alternate declaration syntax. Requoting
from my email:
But if you put the var all the way
to the right and read a declaration right to left, it works:
Basically suggesting that if all type machinery *preceded* an
object declaration (including for functions), we don't need any
parentheses and declarations are very easy to understand --
you just read a declaration from right to left. So no need
for cdel! Too late for this, of course!
int*()* f // f is a ptr to function returning ptr
to int
Nope.
aneurin% cdecl
Type `help' or `?' for help
explain int*()* f
syntax error
declare f as ptr to function returning ptr to int
int *(*f)()
(Sigh; "cdecl" really needs to print a "> " prompt or something.)