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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: a style question: |
| Date | 2015-08-31 13:21 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 31/08/2015 11:24, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:31:04 AM UTC+1, G G wrote:
>>> i am seeing some code that has the function return type on a
>>> separate line like
>>>
>>> int
>>> function( double a)
>>> {
>>> ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> i'm just curious, is there a name for this style?
>>> and why use this style other than the project uses this style?
>>>
>> You see it a lot in C++.
>> C++ functions will often return something like
>>
>> Usr::Graphics::BezierPathSimple<Math::real64_t, GREEN>
>
> Those guys really like to spell things out don't they?
Well, yes. When technical things are being specified that are usually
spelled out in quite a technical way.
But Usr::Graphics::BezierPathSimple and Math::real_64_t are just a names
that use name spaces to avoid clashes. What do you do to solve that
problem? And the whole thing is the instantiation of a generic type
with two parameters. How do you do that in your private language?
I.e. what is, in your view, the proper way to write that?
> Buried
> somewhere in there is .... well I'm not sure exactly!
Of course not -- I don't either -- you'd have to look at the definitions
to know exactly. However, the names give me a pretty good chance of
guessing what's going in there.
> Since the subject was function definitions, I assumed it was. Then I
> looked more carefully and thought it must have been a function
> call. Then I looked yet again, and it might be function definition
> after all.
>
> But yet, you say this is something returned by a function. So I don't
> know what the hell it might be. What a language!
The fact that you don't know what something is at first glance is an odd
criterion to use. I can imagine people looking at
PAR (DO n PLUSAB 1; start siever (first, n) OD, sieve (first))
or
(^^) :: (Fractional a, Integral b) => a -> b -> a
and saying "What a language!". Could it simply be that some things are
complicated to specify, and that making it transparent at first glace
might be counter-productive in the long run?
<snip>
--
Ben.
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