I'm surprised i found this in the presentation on D that's available on this site:

> Ever tried to declare in C
> a pointer to a pointer to an array of pointers to ints?
> int *(**p[]);

Shouldn't it be
int *(**p)[];
???

Whether this is known or not, i think an errata should be made available...

"a lurker" <a_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d4usfo$26jq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I'm surprised i found this in the presentation on D that's available on
this
> site:
>
> > Ever tried to declare in C
> > a pointer to a pointer to an array of pointers to ints?
> > int *(**p[]);
>
> Shouldn't it be
> int *(**p)[];
> ???
>
> Whether this is known or not, i think an errata should be made
available...

It's known. It was pointed out while I gave the talk at SDWest, and was cause for much merriment.

a lurker wrote:
> I'm surprised i found this in the presentation on D that's available on this
> site:
> 
>> Ever tried to declare in C
>> a pointer to a pointer to an array of pointers to ints?
>> int *(**p[]);
> 
> Shouldn't it be
> int *(**p)[];
> ???
> 
> Whether this is known or not, i think an errata should be made available...

And even this looks wrong:

    int *(*fp)();        // C
    int* function()* fp; // D

Should it be

    int* function() fp; // D

???

Stewart.

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