------- Comment #2 from gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu 2006-01-17 04:01 ------- Subject: Re: Request for warning for parser ambiguity of function declarations and variable declarations with initializations
"pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Maybe if more C++ books actually talked about this issue, there would not be a | problem (sorry I could not resists). C++ books do take about it -- just check out the good ones. This very problem, if you check out writings from Bjarne or me (see, e.g., our proposal for "generalized initializer list" for discussions), is a problem inherited from the C syntax which permits redundant parenthesis in declarations, exacerbed by the functional notation. Check out details from D&E. | Also warning about very valid and defined | code even if it is a common mistake that beginers make. I would rather have | people actually taught this rule than GCC warning about it. this is somehow hard to diagnose, but I guess one could engineer the front-end to remember redundant parens, but it would be rather low priority for me. -- Gaby -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25814
