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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Static variables (grischka5)


From: Rob Landley
Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Static variables (grischka5)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 20:32:13 -0400
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On Wednesday 02 May 2007 6:48 pm, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > Return value is a pointer to a function "void blah(void)";  Check, I
> > think.   
> 
> To be fair, this isn't one of C's better areas.  Some other languages'
> notations make this kind of declaration easier; every language has its +s
> and -s.  

Back around 1990 I wrote a program that needed an array of function pointers.  
(Yeah, I reinvented bytecode.  In my defense, I'd never heard of it before.)  
I worked out the syntax for this with nothing more than a passing mention of 
function pointers (and one example) in the Herbert Schildt book "How to 
program in Turbo C".  (Luckily, there were a finite number of places to 
attempt to insert the square brackets.)

I am quite aware that function pointers are a bit of an afterthought in C, 
syntax-wise.  But this was a particularly egregious example, and it STILL 
looks like there's more parentheses there than are strictly necessary...

Rob




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