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Re:Stress impairs cognitive functions - The loss of those fu... by jdvolz on Sunday January 13, 2008 @01:04AM (#97772)
I agree this is an issue with the C syntax. I always used to write my pointer declarations as:

char* p

instead of

char p

That way there was no clash with when you are dereferencing p -

p

Admittedly this approach may not help entirely with more complex examples, like a pointer to a function that returns a point to a function that takes two pointers to void...or something. Indeed having languages that create less accidental complexity is a huge win.

Re:Stress impairs cognitive functions - The loss of those fu... by jdvolz on Sunday January 13, 2008 @01:06AM (#97773)
hmmm... apparently some of stars got removed. Point was that the star goes with the type, not with the variable name, except for dereferencing