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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] noli@programming.dev 9 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Gotcha, thanks.

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