C type declarations
jrv at Mitre-Bedford
jrv at Mitre-Bedford
Sun Feb 10 08:51:26 AEST 1985
> Indeed, changing the syntax of C type declarations at this oint is totally
> infeasible and would break lots of existing programs. (The preious article
> suggested parsing type declarations from left to right instead f by
> precedence.) ...
> Morris M. Keesan
The change I suggested could be done with only an *addition*
to the syntax - specifically, overloading the ^ operator with
a postfix as well as an infix meaning, and adding a new
declaration syntax. I don't *think* this would break any
existing programs.
- Jim Van Zandt
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