Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {} Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:58:26 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <53933b44-84f6-4a5c-bf3e-5ac931642864@googlegroups.com> <55236aae-a46e-42f6-8a3d-360f6e41728a@googlegroups.com> <5bf72ffe-ef52-4ad7-969c-ad2cf00a83d7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3c9491fcd50349ea336243ee8772beaa"; logging-data="28834"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19TQj0s5g+NYBDZ+3SGjGUa" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jMVWHK9H9hkieZWyoZMJq2q7BGo= sha1:J3DmMym581JfVtAVOw/3JYGkNnM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:95537 BartC writes: [...] > The attitude here seems to be that C cannot be criticised under any > circumstances. There is nothing wrong with any aspect of it! I am aware of no such attitude. My own attitude is that there are a lot of legitimate criticisms of C, but repeating those criticisms ad nauseam as you do is boring. Furthermore, expressing those criticisms in terms that seem to be designed to maximize confusion is annoying. I've never said I *like* the way C treats arrays and pointer, and in fact I don't. I'm not sure how I'd fix it while retaining C's relatively low level. But I *understand* how they work. > Anyway I wasn't criticising it except saying I couldn't understand it. > In fact this sub-thread started off with someone (not me) being confused > by a similar bit of code. Yes, the code in question was poorly written. It would have been easier to understand with proper formatting. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org 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"