Re: vax/ddb(4): clean up machine dependent code and improve usability

Anders Magnusson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Den 2025-03-11 kl. 22:32, skrev Greg A. Woods:
> At Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:03:05 -0400 (EDT), Mouse<[email protected]>  wrote:
> Subject: Re: vax/ddb(4): clean up machine dependent code and improve usability
>>> And yes, this means you really can use "C++-like syntax" like
>>> ptr->member(arg1, arg2)
>> Yes, you can.  Again, I prefer to not; I find the clarity resulting
>> from the (* ) textual reminder that there's a materialized pointer
>> involved worth the three source-code characters involved.
> Indeed!  Clarity from the explicit dereference is very valuable even if
> the variable name is also indicative of being a pointer (e.g. funcptr).
I noticed that there is no guidelines for function pointers in the style 
document.  Maybe it should be?

-- Ragge
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