11 May
2017
11 May
'17
5:11 p.m.
On 11 May 2017 12:17 -0400, from clemc(a)ccc.com (Clem Cole):
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On the flip side, it certainly does beat `char* x, y, z[100];` or
`FILE* fpsrc, fpdst;`. I wonder how many aspiring C programmers have
been tripped up by constructs like those? It's perfectly reasonable
_once you know about it_, but if you don't, then, well...
It's even more fun if your system doesn't have memory protection. No,
I'm not speaking from experience; what made you think that I did? ;-)
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se
“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Is this style of declarations common?
char
*bbit,
*abbit,
*state,
*lc,
pathname[200],
/.../
Ted certainly did that a lot.
(It drove me nuts. I hated it and argued a bit about it.) One of the
reasons I hated C when I first learned it.