I always found this to be one of C's (and it's descendants) more ridiculous aspects.
You should not need an entire algorithm just to mentally parse a declaration. The rules should be sufficiently straight forward so that the advanced pattern matching in our brains should suffice.
It is excusable since C is old, but ridiculous nonetheless.
You should not need an entire algorithm just to mentally parse a declaration. The rules should be sufficiently straight forward so that the advanced pattern matching in our brains should suffice.
It is excusable since C is old, but ridiculous nonetheless.