From: david.brown@hesbynett.no   
      
   On 26/10/2025 16:12, bart wrote:   
   > On 25/10/2025 16:18, David Brown wrote:   
   >> On 25/10/2025 14:51, bart wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> This is another matter. The CDECL docs talk about C and C++ type   
   >>> declarations being 'gibberish'.   
   >>>   
   >>> What do you feel about that, and the *need* for such a substantial   
   >>> tool to help understand or write such declarations?   
   >>>   
   >>> I would rather have put some effort into fixing the syntax so that   
   >>> such tools are not necessary!   
   >   
   >> And I'd love to hear your plan for "fixing" the syntax of C - noting   
   >> that changing the syntax of C means getting the C standards committee   
   >> to accept your suggestions, getting at least all major C compilers to   
   >> support them, and getting the millions of C programmers to use them.   
   >   
   > I have posted such proposals in the past (probably before 2010).   
   >   
      
   No, you have not.   
      
   What you have proposed is a different way to write types in   
   declarations, in a different language.  That's fine if you are making a   
   different language.  (For the record, I like some of your suggestions,   
   and dislike others - my own choice for an "ideal" syntax would be   
   different from both your syntax and C's.)   
      
   I asked you if you had a plan for /fixing/ the syntax of /C/.  You don't.   
      
   As an analogy, suppose I invited you - as an architect and builder - to   
   see my house, and you said you didn't like the layout of the rooms, the   
   kitchen was too small, and you thought the cellar was pointless   
   complexity.  I ask you if you can give me a plan to fix it, and you   
   respond by telling me your own house is nicer.   
      
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