On 11/10/2017 15:52, breamore...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 3:14:51 PM UTC+1, bartc wrote:
On 11/10/2017 14:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Python and C don't try to protect you. In return, you get syntactic
convenience that probably enhances the quality of your programs.
Python, maybe. C syntax isn't as painful as C++ but I still have a lot
of trouble with it. (Eg. the variable declaration 'char(*(*x[3])())[5]'.
The name of the variable can be found lurking in that lot somewhere, but
what's the type?) Not so convenient.
https://cdecl.org/ tells me that your variable declaration is a syntax error so
maybe not much of an example.
Perhaps you didn't write or paste it properly. The site tells me that:
char(*(*x[3])())[5]
(with or without a trailing semicolon) means:
declare x as array 3 of pointer to function returning pointer to
array 5 of char
(Example taken from page 122 of the C book "K&R2", in a section about
writing a program to make sense of complex declarations.)
Anyway that fact you either tripped up on typing it, or that you had to
use a special tool to find out what it meant, sort of reinforces my point...
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