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Re: struct tag (*[5])(float)

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On 02/04/2015 00:01, Barry Schwarz wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:55:50 +0100, Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

>>>>     struct tag (*[5])(float)

>> I could try and tell you what the above means, but it will a guess.
>> Although I know the name goes just before the "*", because I tested my
>> guess with a compiler.
>
> I think you guessed wrong.  The name goes between the * and the [.

I got it right before but without the working example in front of me, I 
forgot which way around it was.

> Without the name, it specifies the type
>       array of five pointer-to-function
>
> Where each function pointed to
>            takes one argument of type float
>            returns a value of type struct tag
>
> With the name and a concluding ;, it would declare (and possibly
> define) an array object of that type.

I was way off the mark. I got that there was function taking a float 
argument involved, and an array of 5, a pointer, and a struct, but they 
weren't quite in the right order.

Anyway I'm never going to understand why any language would choose to 
have type declarations written in Chinese (as they might as well be).

-- 
Bartc

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struct tag (*[5])(float) "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 21:17 +0100
  Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-01 17:40 -0400
    Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-01 22:55 +0100
      Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-04-01 16:01 -0700
        Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-01 19:29 -0400
          Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-04-02 05:28 -0700
        Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-02 00:37 +0100
      Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-01 20:13 -0700
        Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-02 10:30 +0100
          Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-02 15:18 -0700
  Re: struct tag (*[5])(float) John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 15:22 -0700

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