On 11/10/2017 17:16, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 15:14 +0100, 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.
I believe the type of any variable in C is the same as its declaration,
but with the variable name deleted.
Yes, I think we got that...
So:
char (*(*[3])())[5]
..which doesn't help, and in fact makes things worse, as now you don't
have a start point at which to start unravelling it. You have to do it
from the inside out.
That is, an array of 3 pointers to functions that return pointers to
arrays of 5 characters.
But you left out the dozen steps needed to get from that to this!
Anyway if such a type can be more clearly expressed like this, why
doesn't a language simply allow that, or near enough? Why does it need
to be cryptic, or require an external tool to encode and decode (there
is a reason that CDECL exists) or require the programmer to apply an
algorithm?
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