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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:24:47 -0700
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 02/11/2016 14:02, John Bode wrote:
[...]
>> Then deal with it.  C isn't going to significantly change going forward.
>
> It certainly won't with the kind of attitudes in this group.

Do you understand that changing C's declaration syntax would break
essentially all existing C code?  Unless you manage to add some new
syntax while keeping the existing syntax, which would be far worse than
what we have now.

Do you think that the members of this newsgroup are preventing C from
being changed in the way you want?

What you want is a different language.  There are plenty of them.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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