Am Dienstag, dem 29.11.2022 um 16:53 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Wakely: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 at 16:49, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, Michael Matz via Gcc wrote: > > > > > like. But I'm generally doubtful of this whole feature within C > > > itself. > > > It serves a purpose in documentation, so in man-pages it seems > > > fine enough > > > (but then still could use a different puncuator to not be > > > confusable with > > > C syntax). > > > > In man-pages you don't need to invent syntax at all. You can write > > > > int f(char buf[n], int n); > > > > and in the context of a man page it will be clear to readers what > > is > > meant, > > Considerably more clear than new invented syntax IMHO.
True, but I think it would be a mistake to use code in man pages which then does not work as expected (or even is subtle wrong) in actual code. Martin
