Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Oleh.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 01:27:49PM +0200, Oleh Krehel wrote:

> May I ask if there's a reason to not have a single style for const
> pointers? I get 2162 occurrences of "const char *", and 357 occurrences
> of "char const *" in the C sources.

Yes there is.  The two are semantically different.  In one of them, it is
the pointer which is declared constant.  In the other, it's what's
pointed at that's constant.  Though I can never remember which is which.
:-(

>     Oleh

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).