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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: type *var -- vs. -- type* var
Message-ID: <11033@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Sep 89 03:21:50 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1014@m3.mfci.UUCP> karzes@mfci.UUCP (Tom Karzes) writes:
-In article <10992@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
->In article <12813@pur-ee.UUCP> lewie@ecn-ee.UUCP writes:
->>Because there's no explicit separator between declarations and statements,
->>you'll never be able to declare pointers as such.  Isn't C syntax fun?
->Anyone who programs in C frequently declares pointers as such.
-This statement is a nonsequitur.  C programmers do frequently declare
-pointers to ints, but they certainly don't use the above syntax to do
-so, which is what you unwittingly claimed.

I got a note from lewie; it turns out that the misunderstanding lies in
the usage of the phrase "as such".  He meant in the cast-like format.
I would have said "like that" instead of "as such"..