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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: CDECL source code
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.062051.280@research.canon.oz.au>
Date: 23 Nov 90 06:20:51 GMT
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In article <12671@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
>
>Doesn't anybody else see the irony of needing a program to write
>C declaration syntax?
>
>And some people teach this language to beginners....
>

I agree that C isn't the language with which to teach programming but ...

It was a fairly complex type (pointer to an array of 10 pointers to functions
that return int) in a single declaration. Try the same thing in another language,
looks just as bad (and just as confusing for the beginner). The thing is don't
do so much in one declaration.

Now if it were Occam there wouldn't be a problem...you can't do it at all ;-)



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