phobos commit, revision 2079


user: Don Clugston

msg:
C function pointers -> D syntax

http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/2079

  Why the heck does D even support the C style syntax here?  IMHO it
should just be removed because it's completely unreadable and not that
important for porting C code.

On 10/1/2010 10:42 PM, dsource.org wrote:
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On 2 October 2010 04:46, David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com> wrote:
> ?Why the heck does D even support the C style syntax here? ?IMHO it should just be removed because it's completely unreadable and not that important for porting C code.

I agree. Even worse is C function type syntax.

alias int(x)(int);

x * y;

actually compiles, and declares y as a function pointer. And x is a function type, the most bizarre beast in the C family.

int (z);  actually parses as a declaration of a function type. Really
nasty for is() expressions.