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From: "Tony Gair" <tonygair@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:36:08 -0000
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No

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> James Rogers wrote:
>
> > Yes. Let's all use a language with common constructs like the
> > following:
> >
> > float (*(*f)())();
> >
> > This is "simple" C syntax for a pointer to a function returning a
> > pointer to a function returning a float.
>
>
> I could go "nyah nyah" and point out that until Ada 95 came along,
> Ada didn't have pointers to functions. And functions returning
> pointers to functions aren't all that common, so you don't see too
> many declarations like that in typical C or C++ code.
>
> That being said, I must agree that the declaration syntax of C (and
> therefore of C++) is a disasterous mistake, stemming from a misguided
> design goal. The point of C's declaration syntax is to make the
> declaration of a name mirror its use. That is, to actually retrieve
> the ultimate float from f, you can write
>
> float an_f = (*(*f)())();
>
> See? It's an idea, just not a good one.
>
>