Oom Sveta @oom.technology · Mar 27

I totally agree. Or at least I used to. Recent facts I came across while re-reading parts of @rcs.bsky.social's "Effective C" - the book that reminds you that the "C" in "C Programming Language" stands for "Cthulhu" - made me revise my mental model a little bit

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Oom Sveta · Mar 27

This part in particular (see image below) made me realize that the "*" is more like a "type modifier" and that it is /per identifier/. From this perspective, it might be more correct to attach the * to the identifier