Re: vax/ddb(4): clean up machine dependent code and improve usability
Anders Magnusson <[email protected]>
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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