HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoWhy make it complicated?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square72linkfedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down134file-text
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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoSome declarations terminate on the name, other declarations go one requiring more tokens. In C, the only thing that differentiates them is the type. Parenthesis in particular are completely ambiguous. But asterisks and square brackets also create problems.
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI have never heard of this problem for C. Can you elaborate or point to some articles?
Some declarations terminate on the name, other declarations go one requiring more tokens. In C, the only thing that differentiates them is the type.
Parenthesis in particular are completely ambiguous. But asterisks and square brackets also create problems.
I have never heard of this problem for C. Can you elaborate or point to some articles?