• sweng@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    You would think so, but int* a, b is actually eqivalent to int* a; int b, so the asterisk actually does go with the name. Writing int* a, *b is inconsistent, so int *a, *b is the way to go.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, and I’d say that’s a design flaw of the language as it is unintuitive behaviour.

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      9 months ago

      When people say “pointers are hard”, they mean “I have no idea where the star goes and now an ampersand is also implicated”.

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      9 months ago

      While technically true, that’s also one of the worst ‘features’ of the language and I personally consider it a bug in the language. Use two lines and make it clear and correct.

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      9 months ago

      Don’t declare more than 1 pointer per line. This resolves that, badly.