Re:Everything I wish I knew when learning C
by thomastjeffery on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:30PM
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Multiple declaration is generally frowned upon, because you declare the variables without immediately setting them to something.
If you always set new variables in the same statement you declare them, then you don't use multiple declarations, which means there is no ambiguity putting the * by the type name.
So convention wins out for convention's sake. And that's the entire point of convention in the first place: to sidestep the ugly warts of a decades-old language design.
If you always set new variables in the same statement you declare them, then you don't use multiple declarations, which means there is no ambiguity putting the * by the type name.
So convention wins out for convention's sake. And that's the entire point of convention in the first place: to sidestep the ugly warts of a decades-old language design.