Guru-nizing printing of types

Gabriel Dos_Reis gdr@codesorucery.com
Mon Nov 15 09:23:00 GMT 1999


Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:

| >>>>> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
| 
|  Carlo> Anyway, if you don't want to use the `int const*' style as
|  Carlo> default then there isn't much I can do.  But,... how about
|  Carlo> using the `int* func(const char*);' style as default
|  Carlo> instead of `int *func(const char *)'?
| 
|  > I agree that's a more modern style, used by most C++ programmers, and
|  > perhaps appropriate.  If Jason doesn't object, I would approve a patch
|  > that changed just that.
| 
| I still feel that this is not a C++-specific question; we should be
| consistent with the C frontend and the GNU Coding Standards on this issue.
| Pointers are the same in C and C++.

I do agree with you that pointers are conceptually the same in C and
C++.  Nevertheless, I strongly feel that we should not depart from the 
C++ community pratices.  

-- Gaby


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