Re: Syntax error?

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From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject	Re: Syntax error?
Date	Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:41:21 -0700
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Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> No, it's the syntax that's daft, and that's a fact, not just my
> opinion (even cdecl.org calls it 'gibberish').

No, it's your opinion.  The fact that others happen to share that
opinion doesn't make it a "fact".

I agree with you that C syntax is unnecessarily confusing.  But it's
entirely well-defined and consistent, and quite frankly whining
about it isn't going to help.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-25 13:19 +0100
  Re: Syntax error? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-04-25 11:07 -0400
  Re: Syntax error? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-04-25 18:03 +0200
    Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-25 17:26 +0100
      Re: Syntax error? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-04-25 19:28 +0200
  Re: Syntax error? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-04-26 11:19 +0200
    Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-26 11:17 +0100
      Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-26 11:36 +0100
        Re: Syntax error? Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-26 13:40 +0100
          Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-26 19:27 +0100
            Re: Syntax error? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-04-26 12:38 -0700
              Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-26 22:26 +0100
            Re: Syntax error? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-26 12:41 -0700
            Re: Syntax error? Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-27 01:53 +0100
      Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-26 13:24 +0100
  Re: Syntax error? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-04-26 07:01 -0700
    Re: Syntax error? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-26 19:55 +0100
      Re: Syntax error? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-27 02:39 -0500
      Re: Syntax error? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-04-28 08:34 -0700

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