On 2017-10-11, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 11/10/2017 15:36, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:14 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> People love showcasing stupid examples like that. But how often do you >> REALLY make declarations that complex? That's not technically >> strawmanning, since C syntax does indeed include that, but you're >> cherry-picking the most extreme example. > > Sure. Statistically most declarations are going to be things like 'int' > or 'char*. But more complicated ones (usually not as bad as the > example), crop up often enough to be a nuisance.
The easiest way to make stuff like that readable is to unroll them into a sequence of typedefs. But, a lot of people never really learn how to do that... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... I don't like FRANK at SINATRA or his CHILDREN. gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list