Having an asterisk both be the type indicator and the dereference operator is one of the great programming language design blunders of our time, along with allowing nulls for any type in so many languages.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I also sometimes wish that the syntax in if statements was inverted, where () was optional and {} was required.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Can you give me an example? I'm not sure I follow. Might be language specific?

[–] noli@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if(condition) statement; Is valid in typical C-style syntax.

if condition { ... }

Is invalid in typical C-style syntax

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Gotcha, thanks.

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