Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!jrv@Mitre-Bedford From: jrv@Mitre-Bedford Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C type declarations Message-ID: <8165@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 17:51:26 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8165 Posted: Sat Feb 9 17:51:26 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:55:12 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 12 > Indeed, changing the syntax of C type declarations at this oint is totally > infeasible and would break lots of existing programs. (The preious article > suggested parsing type declarations from left to right instead f by > precedence.) ... > Morris M. Keesan The change I suggested could be done with only an *addition* to the syntax - specifically, overloading the ^ operator with a postfix as well as an infix meaning, and adding a new declaration syntax. I don't *think* this would break any existing programs. - Jim Van Zandt