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| From | Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Recursion, Yo |
| Date | 2024-04-11 15:04 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20240411075825.30@kylheku.com> (permalink) |
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On 2024-04-11, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>On 11/04/2024 02:18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:46:43 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just for your entertainment, with C++ lambdas this is now legal code:
>>>>
>>>> void foo(void) {
>>>> [](){}();
>>>> }
>>>
>>> C programmer still has habit of writing “(void)” when C++ allows “()”
>>> instead.
>>
>>I do that sometimes, yes. I could argue that I think it is better to be
>>explicit than implicit, but it's just my fingers on automatic.
>
> I would use the same argument. Make it explicit.
(void) is a dongle intoduced in ANSI C so that () could continue
to mean "unknown number of parameters". It didn't exist in C++
until ANSI C invented it.
() is a perfectly explicit empty list. (void) does not look empty;
it looks like it's declaring one parameter of type void.
An actual implicit empty parameter list might look like this:
function foo
{
}
Once you have empty parentheses, that is explicit.
Countless programming languages have only (); no such thing as (void) or
similar ugly hack, due to not having a quirky history that would have
caused such a thing to be required.
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Re: Recursion, Yo Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-13 20:33 +0300
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Re: Recursion, Yo Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-14 03:29 +0300
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Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-15 12:00 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-04-15 20:24 +0100
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Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-15 22:39 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-15 22:54 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-15 14:25 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-14 00:29 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-13 20:05 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-13 19:37 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-14 00:28 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-14 11:17 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-04-14 13:51 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-14 22:47 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-14 22:44 +0000
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Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-15 17:50 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-15 22:30 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-17 18:09 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-17 22:12 +0000
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Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-15 20:36 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-15 22:32 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-22 17:41 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-16 23:11 +0300
Re: Recursion, Yo Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-04-19 08:26 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-04-19 18:25 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-19 12:15 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-04-20 05:55 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-04-19 19:34 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-20 02:11 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-19 18:24 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-20 15:35 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-19 12:18 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-04-20 06:03 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-22 17:49 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-15 17:50 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-04-12 10:38 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-12 15:07 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-04-12 16:38 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-12 19:06 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-04-13 07:46 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-04-11 14:36 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-04-11 10:15 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-11 12:37 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-04-12 09:38 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo fir <fir@grunge.pl> - 2024-04-14 20:34 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-10 15:18 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-04-10 14:23 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-11 00:16 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-04-11 14:34 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-12 00:04 +0100
Re: Recursion, Yo Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-10 17:19 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-04-10 21:19 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-11 00:54 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-11 02:06 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-04-11 10:23 +0200
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-11 08:34 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-10 17:10 +0000
Re: Recursion, Yo Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-04-10 10:14 -0700
Re: Recursion, Yo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-09 08:44 +0000
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