Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:33 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
http://www.henning-thielemann.de/CHater.html#CvsM3_ControlFlow
I can has English? :)
If the first large table is any indication, though, we may need to define "inconsistent". C syntax shown there is quite consistent; what it isn't, is designed to keep humans from making certain kinds of mistakes. I'm rather mixed on that goal: on the one hand, C does attract certain errors due to its syntax, but on the other, a language designed to coddle the programmer also tends to keep the programmer from doing useful things. (What's the last practical application you've seen in Logo? Or un-extended Pascal?)
Fully agreed. The only inconsistency I can think of is the declaration of pointer to function returning a pointer to function. This is effectively a bit hard to read since it needs to read forth and back to evaluate the expression. A typedef will simplify the reading when frequently used as in state machines. ld.