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From: conor@lion.inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: CDECL source code
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Date: 21 Nov 90 18:23:55 GMT
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In article <5656@abaa.UUCP> korsberg@abaa.UUCP (Ed Korsberg) writes:
>I am looking for the source code to a program called  cdelc
>This program apparently is used by many people out in netland and will
>translate an English description of a C variable into the C-style
>variable.  For example
>
>cdecl> x is an pointer to an array of 10 pointers to functions that return int
>results in
>	int	(*(*x)[10])();

Doesn't anybody else see the irony of needing a program to write
C declaration syntax?

And some people teach this language to beginners....




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