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The C23 edition of Modern C

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515 points bwidlar | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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RantyDave ◴[16 Oct 24 19:53 UTC] No.41863140[source]▶
Wait, C programmers now put the star on the left hand side?

char* thing; // good

char *thing; // bad

This ... is awesome. As a C++ "native" I've always found the "star on the right" thing to be really horribly confusing.

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1. bloppe ◴[16 Oct 24 20:07 UTC] No.41863280[source]▶
Ofc this has always been an option. In my C heyday I used to put a space on both sides of the star. It makes for a more consistent syntax when you have multi layer pointers with const at various layers. For example:

// mutable pointer to mutable data:

char * str;

// Immutable pointer to immutable data:

char const*const str;

// Mutable pointer to an immutable pointer to a mutable pointer to immutable data:

char const**const* strs;