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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.
I also sometimes wish that the syntax in
ifstatements was inverted, where()was optional and{}was required.Can you give me an example? I'm not sure I follow. Might be language specific?
if(condition) statement; Is valid in typical C-style syntax.
if condition { ... }
Is invalid in typical C-style syntax
Gotcha, thanks.