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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Verbose declarations proposal (Re: Address of Array)
Message-ID: <1458@houdi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 19:49:51 GMT
References: <126@citcom.UUCP> <2550034@hpisod2.HP.COM> <1854@haddock.ISC.COM> <9898@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: cdecl not installed yet here

In article <9898@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> In article <1449@houdi.UUCP> marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT) writes:
> >... using the basic type declarators like int, char, etc., combined
> >with a few simple phrases: "pointer to", "function returning",
> >"array of", and maybe a few others.  Any complicated type declaration,
> >if means anything at all, can be explained to a neophyte in these terms.
> 
> I will let this assertion pass.  Anyway ...
> ...
> cdecl has been posted to the net many times; there are probably
> 24 copies on your machine already, each in some user's private
> directory.  Why not find one and install it?

Security being what it is, I can't look around for private copies. 
However, we have a Labs-wide set of experimental tools, and a version
of cdecl is in it.  But it just prints out "this tool - cdecl - not
installed yet."  So I doubt that there are 24 copies.

But my assertion about simple phrases stands fast.  According to the
online manual entry for cdecl, its verbose language uses just the three
phrases I suggested.

If Chris thinks cdecl is such a useful tool that any UNIX(tm) system
probably has 24 copies, why isn't it a standard tool, like lint?
Answer: it will be.  Next question: why not incorporate it in the
compiler?

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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