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A comment on Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] by Koshkin on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:51AM (#26914753)
The reason the asterisk naturally "sticks to" the name is simply the possibility to write a series of declarations like this:

    int a, *b, (*c)(int);
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Re:Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] by kaba0 on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:55AM (#26915350)
Which is a questionable saving of 2 lines and a few characters in a language where huge repetitions are a given, due to lack of templates/generics whatever.
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