Re:Massacring C Pointers (2018)
by sergeykish on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:23AM
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I found it much easier to understand than Pascal. It just clicked. Later there was a moment of confusion with "char* a, b".
It helped than I've learned by K&R C book. Windows API and code examples are horrific, like another language.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/wi...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/ma...
C does this very cute (read: horrifyingly unintuitive) thing where the type reads how it's used. So "char ⋆a" is written so because "⋆a" is a "char", i.e. pointer declarations mimic dereferencing, and similarly, function pointer declarations mimic function application, and array declarations mimic indexing into the array.