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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wayne Throop's declaration poll
Message-ID: <731@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 23:44:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 21 23:44:00 1986
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Keywords: e2c

In article <1436@homxb.UUCP> homxb!gemini (Rick Richardson) writes:
>There was a memo on "e2c" and "c2e" at AT&T several years back.
>You could type at it:
>	array of pointers to functions returning pointers to ints
>And it would tell you what the declaration should look like.

Trouble is, many people who can't get the declaration right without
help would also have trouble phrasing it correctly in English.  In
particular, many people say "pointer to array of x" when they mean
"pointer to first element of array of x", which is "pointer to x".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint