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rramadass 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C

Right. These are just "old chestnuts" used to scare C noobs particularly in interviews. IIRC the K&R C book itself had a example program to convert C declarations to English and also there exists a utility program called "cdecl" to do the same.

lifthrasiir 8 months ago [–]

Better to use that English explanation as a model of readable syntax.

rramadass 8 months ago | [–]

It is but you just have to know how to map it.

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