Updated slightly; C geekery

[robinbloke]

[Poll #777592]

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The semantics are identical. The 'char* fred' version breaks horribly when you try to express anything more complicated a single, simple, declarator within a given declaration (and also implies ignorance of the logic behind C's declarator syntax).

[duncanneko.livejournal.com]

Well, I was right about being Wrong ;) I was vaguely aware of the

char *a, b, *c;

business but never got as far as writing anything like that myself anyway. I just work on my own (flawed) parsing of 'char[ ]*' into english.