I know criticizing C is like, yesterday's pastime, and the syntax I'm criticizing is probably from the seventies, but I hate in particular that the pointer-type's syntax is
type *name
no no no. That contains an address. How else do I get things to contain an address? the & operator, not the * operator
@ChateauErin I have been annoyed about this for decades and C++ sometimes putting an & there but to mean something different only makes it worse. Even once you understand it it's a huge impediment to explaining C to others
@fernandomorgan@gregvr@ChateauErin the issue with this is that if you declare multiple variables on the same line (I don’t, don’t @ me on this), only the first one gets the pointer type because C. It’s bonkers. It’s totally a type thing and should be syntactically attached to the type regardless of how you like formatting it.
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