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.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I also sometimes wish that the syntax in if statements was inverted, where () was optional and {} was required.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Can you give me an example? I'm not sure I follow. Might be language specific?

[–] noli@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

if(condition) statement; Is valid in typical C-style syntax.

if condition { ... }

Is invalid in typical C-style syntax

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Gotcha, thanks.

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