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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
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> Or, indeed, all the cast operators ('(int)' is three tokens).

And a type name can be arbitrarily long, so a cast operator can consist
of as many tokens as you like.

>                                                                The
> function call operators can have even more.  "Every assignment operator
> is a single token" would have been a safer remark.

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