Uniform syntax for type expressions and declarators

Ravi Sethi

doi:10.1002/spe.4380110606

Uniform syntax for type expressions and declarators

Ravi Sethi

Computer Science

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Abstract

A declaration mechanism is proposed that allows common type information to be factored into a type expression, yet allows related but distinct types to be declared together. The mechanism is a unification of declarations in Pascal and C. The choice of syntax is quite important. The proposed syntax uses a postfix operator for dereferencing pointers instead of the prefix operator * for pointer dereferencing in C.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	623-628
Number of pages	6
Journal	Software: Practice and Experience
Volume	11
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380110606
State	Published - Jun 1981

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Declaration syntax Syntactic sugar

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