Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2
Date	2015-11-01 23:48 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 31/10/15 03:40, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> What a difference a whitespace makes!
>
> -----
> CAlive makes pointer declarations more logical.
>
>      (1)  If the * is located directly beside the type (no whitespaces
>           between the type and *), it defines every item thereafter to
>           be a pointer to that type.
>
>      (2)  If, however, the * is located at least one whitespace away from
>           the type, the * only applies to the first variable, and then
>           must be explicitly applied to any other variables that need to
>           be pointers.
>
> For example:
>
>      char*   p1, p2, p3;
>      // p1, p2, and p3 are all char* variables
>
>      char    *p4, p5, *p6;
>      // p4 and p6 are char*, but p5 is just char
>

If I were inventing a new language, I would put some sort of punctuation 
between the type and the identifiers.  The identifier list would allow 
/only/ the identifiers - no pointer, references, arrays, etc.  For example:

	char* : p1, p2, p3;

There's no doubts - each of p1, p2 and p3 are pointers to char.

	char : *p4, p5, *p6;

Illegal syntax - you can't have the pointer symbol in the identifier list.

	char[20] : s, t;

There are no doubts - s and t are arrays of 20 chars.

	char : s[20], t;

Illegal syntax.

Basically, it is the same thing as in Pascal, bare the minor detail of 
the ordering.

> -----
> This feature was included in deference to the D programming language and
> Walter Bright who, back in 2006, unknowingly first introduced me to the
> idea that pointer symbols should always be next to the type for pointer
> declarations.
>
> Thank you, Walter, for opening my eyes.
>
> Best regards,
> Rick C. Hodgin
>

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CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 19:40 -0700
  Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-30 19:50 -0700
    Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 19:56 -0700
      Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-31 13:00 -0700
  Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-31 11:23 +0000
    Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 07:45 -0700
      Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-31 15:02 +0000
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 10:52 -0700
          Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-31 20:01 +0000
            Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 13:51 -0700
              Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-31 21:43 +0000
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 17:04 -0700
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-01 01:17 +0000
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 19:20 -0700
              Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-31 16:02 -0700
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 17:06 -0700
  Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-31 13:54 +0000
    Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 07:52 -0700
      Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-31 11:16 -0400
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 10:08 -0700
          Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-31 14:00 -0400
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-10-31 17:41 +0000
          Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 11:03 -0700
            Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-31 20:04 +0000
              Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 13:56 -0700
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-31 21:49 +0000
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-31 12:20 -0700
  Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-01 04:17 +0000
    Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 00:02 -0700
  Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-01 20:30 +1300
  Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-11-01 23:48 +0100
    Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 16:54 -0800
      Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-11-02 02:05 +0100
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 17:12 -0800
          Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 17:23 -0800
    Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-02 02:28 -0800
      Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-11-10 15:57 +0000
      Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 08:11 -0800
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 18:34 +0000
          Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 10:55 -0800
        Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-10 21:08 -0800
          Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 05:14 -0800
            Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-12 13:31 +0000
              Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 06:21 -0800
            Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-12 14:29 +0000
              Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 06:36 -0800
              Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-12 06:45 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 06:48 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-11-12 15:59 +0100
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 07:03 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-11-12 16:21 +0000
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-12 09:09 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 09:16 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 09:46 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-12 09:51 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 10:01 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-12 11:10 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 11:31 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-12 12:14 -0800
                Re: CAlive and char* p1, p2 --vs-- char *p1, p2 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 12:18 -0800

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