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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:39:00 +0200
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On 12/04/2025 01:13, bart wrote:
> On 11/04/2025 22:36, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> [...]
>>> Rubbish. Everyone finds C declaration syntax a nightmare.
>>
>> Rubbish.  I find C declaration syntax annoying, not a "nightmare".
>>
> 
> Annoying would be having to get letter case or punctuation just right.
> 
> But C typepecs can go far beyond it. I can just about do arrays of 
> pointers, or pointers to arrays. Anything more complicated is pretty 
> much trial and error.
> 
> In an example in my post which I then deleted (DB will just ignore 
> examples), I wanted to create an array of 10 pointers to functions that 
> take an int and return an int.

If only C had a way to make that simple and clear.  Oh, wait - it does.

	typedef int (*FIntInt)(int);

	FIntInt funcs[10];

If a C programmer - such as yourself - is foolish enough to reject parts 
of the language designed to make coding simpler, safer, clearer and more 
portable, then I can see how your self-imposed restrictions make your 
coding harder.  But the fault lies in the poor use of the language, not 
the language.

(Typically you would give the function pointer type a name appropriate 
to its use rather than based on the parameter and return types - things 
like "keypress_event".)