you'd only notice it if you wanted it to do the right thing for ptr to ptr to fn etc.
brucee On 4/30/05, C H Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as i recall, this and several other peculiar effects > were the consequence of the process > by which the tree was rewritten. > it was along these lines. (i could of course go > off and look at the source but is it worthwhile?) > you might have thought it would leave the types > alone and then when pointer-to-function appeared > as the type of an expression to which () was applied > it would insert a dereference. > but instead it applied the f to &f transformation > so *****f involved not a while loop but repeatedly > introducing &f from the bottom of the tree and having > adjacent *& cancel out (similarly, &*). thus > ******f > ******&f > *****f > *****&f > ****f > ****&f > ***f > etc (i might have got the wrong number of * at some points) > > little fleas indeed! > >
