Properties no longer work?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
> <snip>
>>> Function types are just bizarre. I only recently discovered that C 
>>> has them. Are you allowed to do anything with them, other than 
>>> converting them to a function pointer by taking their address?
>>
>> C has them? Where did you see that, I was under the impression that C 
>> only had function pointers, and they were all the same, such that the 
>> value a function was the same as the value of taking the address of 
>> the function:
>> (func) == (&func)
>> Similarly to what happens to arrays.
> 
> I discovered quite recently that C supports such oddities as
> 
>     typedef int qwert(char*);
> 
> (if I've got the syntax right), thereby defining qwert to be an alias 
> for a function of type int(char*).  I've seen it in the LAM MPI headers. 
>  But as you say, it seems useless - AFAIK the only thing you can do with 
> it is declare something of type pointer to qwert.
> 
> Stewart.
> 

I've quite recently discovered that D supports that as well!
-> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=270
But ah... there is a use for such a typedef after all. I thought they 
could not be used in declarations at all, but forgot about declaring a 
pointer to it. But still I don't know if they are worth the strange syntax.


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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