A minor syntax request

[Alan Griffiths]

On 16/04/13 11:50, Petko wrote:
> On 04/16/2013 01:32 PM, Alan Griffiths wrote:
>> Putting * or & with the type has a long standing tradition within the
>> C++ culture - it started with the first edition of "The C++
>> Programming Language" and has been common practice ever since. There
>> is an associated tradition of declaring each variable separately.
>> (These two go together as "pretending" the type includes * or &
>> doesn't work if multiple variables are declared.) This is very
>> different to the C tradition. 
> I'm subscribed  mainly as a spectator , but I have to note that the
> tradition is less important than the program logic (in most cases ,
> since we shouldn't keep the mistakes of the people before us till the
> end of time) . If the C/C++ standard says that the */& belong to the
> variable , then they should be visually associated with it .
>
> Petko
>
The tradition is based on the reasonable belief that "*/&" is
semantically part of the type. Sadly, it is too late to fix the syntax
to agree with the semantics.