a "derived-declarator-type-list" isn't
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Mon Oct 8 10:08:12 AEST 1990
In several of the subsections of 3.5.4, the result of a particular form
of declarator is defined in terms of the result of a simpler form, which
is said to supply a type "derived-declarator-type-list T".
There is just one problem with this. Nothing ever defines what a d-d-t-l
is. Despite the name, it is not a list of derived declarator types,
and indeed it is not a list of types at all. The ill-defined horror of
"top type" lives on, sigh...
An experienced C programmer, of course, "knows" what the descriptions mean.
But he won't figure it out from the standard.
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