[gameprogrammer] Re: A Note on C Programming Style

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:54 +0100, Etali wrote:
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> From: "Alan Wolfe" <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:52 PM
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: A Note on C Programming Style
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> 
> > Wes you are the only person that i have talked to that sees the value
> > of char *p instead of char* p.
> >
> > my hat is off to you (:
> >
> 
> 
> I've been programming 'self taught' for a number of years, and recently went
> to Uni to learn it all 'officially'
> 
> I'm of the char *p school myself - my lecturer insists on char* p because a)
> that's keeping all the bits of the type declaration together, and b) that
> discourages multiple declarations on one line (he thinks that's messy).
> 
> After so many years of doing it the other way, it is so confusing to have to
> do it his way.
> 
> I don't see why pointers are confusing.  I see why they're annoying when
> they go wrong, and a pain to debug, but not why the basic idea of what a
> pointer is and does is confusing.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear what other people think and how they found it when
> they were first learning.

Pointer never bothered me. They just made sense. OTOH, I have known a
lot of people who will not use pointers because they really do not
understand what they do or how they work. I have had the experience of
trying to explain them to people who just didn't get the idea at all.

I don't know why it is, but some people get pointers and some do not.

                Bob Pendleton

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