On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 11:12:00 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 10:33:02 UTC, eles wrote:
http://blog.golang.org/gos-declaration-syntax
but they give a nice convoluted counter-example; read this:
int (*(*fp)(int (*)(int, int), int))(int, int)
Yep. Spiral reading on this:
fp is a pointer to a function taking in ( a pointer to a
function taking in an int and another int returning an int )
and an int returning a pointer to a function taking in an int
and an int returning an int.
Although it's an artificially really complex example, it's
ridiculous you have to read it in a spiral to understand it.
C's
int numbers[];
is really awkward. But I think that D's
int[] numbers;
is just as clear as Go's right-to-left declaration. I think the
problem is not really the reading _direction_ but the reading
_logic_ that makes clear what belongs to what. int[] is an array
of integers, just as []int is an array of integers. It's clear
because it's glued to the type and not to the variable name.
