Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 15:56:03 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   this is the first time i encounter a C function returning a function without a typedef and ... no

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Ankit Pati (ankitpati@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 15:56:53 JST Ankit Pati

     in reply to

     @whitequark How do you make it this far into LLVM with your innocence intact? This thing got me right when I started out in C, following the K&R book. That book has a full implementation of a C declaration to English translator.

   • Embed this notice
     niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 15:56:53 JST niconiconi

     in reply to

     • Ankit Pati

     @ankitpati@mastodon.social @whitequark@mastodon.social cdecl is one of the tell-tales that shows K&R is a reference book instead of an introductory textbook. Instead of teaching readers about useful guidelines of reading C declarations, it just gives you the raw algorithm.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.