Re: pointers

"Simon Biber" <news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4314213f$0$29041$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Certainly the ability to declare objects of different types in a single
> declaration would be lost:
>
> For example, the declaration:
> char c, *pc, **ppc, *(*pfrpc)();
>
> Would become:
> c: char;
> pc: pointer to char;
> ppc: pointer to char;
> pfrpc: pointer to function returning pointer to char;
>
> Somewhat more typing, but much clearer!

Maybe that (less typing) was the very idea of the C/Unix developers... Just
remember creat() :)

Alex


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