On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 01:12:19PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > ... > > "usually" may be true of freebsd, but most places I've worked consider > > the * (and & in c++) to be more associated with the type being declared > > than with the variable name
This is often true for C++ (partially because it has both * and &), but... > > info, not the var name. Putting the * or & with the var name leads to > > particularly bad constructs such as > > > > int a, *b; > > > > which, for maximal clarity, should be: > > > > int a; > > int* b; > > Are we free to prefer the former in C if that's how we've been coding in > C for 20+ years? I agree with Devin here: we, in FreeBSD, which is mostly coded in C, place the star by the variable rather than its type. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
