Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: a "derived-declarator-type-list" isn't
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.000812.24800@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 90 00:08:12 GMT

In several of the subsections of 3.5.4, the result of a particular form
of declarator is defined in terms of the result of a simpler form, which
is said to supply a type "derived-declarator-type-list T".

There is just one problem with this.  Nothing ever defines what a d-d-t-l
is.  Despite the name, it is not a list of derived declarator types,
and indeed it is not a list of types at all.  The ill-defined horror of
"top type" lives on, sigh...

An experienced C programmer, of course, "knows" what the descriptions mean.
But he won't figure it out from the standard.
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