From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Easily-Read C++?
Date: 12 Oct 94 16:54:32
Date: 1994-10-12T16:54:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.94Oct12165432@goldfinger.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com's message of 11 Oct 1994 18:37:02 GMT
The ambiguity 'inherent' in declarations such as
char * foo;
char ** foo;
char foo[];
char *foo[];
causes problems for C tools. Even though each of the above is
'unambiguous', common usage means that any of these can be used to
represent the others. At least one tool I know of (an RPC generator
for C) requires the user to disambiguate some of the above
declarations, to make sure that the tool generates the right code.
What's bad for tools is certainly bad for programmers....
dave
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1994-10-11 18:37 ` Easily-Read C++? Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-12 16:54 ` David Emery [this message]
1994-10-14 21:13 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-21 14:38 ` Thomas M. Breuel
1994-10-22 3:10 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-10-26 0:39 ` -mlc-+Schilling J.
1994-10-27 14:54 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-27 15:35 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-27 23:09 ` Robert Dewar
1994-11-01 21:19 ` Adam Beneschan
1994-11-02 0:46 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-14 10:50 Bob Wells #402
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1994-10-12 3:06 Easily-Read C++ Ken Garlington
1994-10-05 3:00 Easily-Read C++? Ken Garlington
1994-10-05 9:42 ` Pierre Castori
1994-10-05 13:28 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-06 2:20 ` Benjamin Ketcham
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1994-10-12 17:03 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-05 14:26 ` Eric S. Sessoms
1994-10-05 17:47 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-05 22:02 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 22:23 ` Richard Kenner
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1994-10-11 18:11 ` David Weller
1994-10-11 18:43 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:15 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-12 14:10 ` Robert Firth
1994-10-13 19:33 ` John D. Reading
1994-10-13 0:51 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-10-05 18:24 ` Magnus Kempe
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1994-10-11 13:00 ` Robert Firth
1994-10-11 13:44 ` Casper H.S. Dik
1994-10-11 19:03 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 16:38 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-11 18:52 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:49 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1994-10-11 18:55 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:35 ` John M. Mills
1994-10-12 19:48 ` Robert Dewar
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1994-10-11 17:50 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1994-10-11 18:02 ` Norman H. Cohen
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