[COFF] C with Improvements :-)

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025, Warren Toomey via COFF wrote:

[...]

> Rather than talk about alic, reply with what you like/hate about your 
> favourite language!

This will probably get me tarred and feathered, but I have a couple of 
gripes about C:

Declaration of pointers: these days I prefer to write

    int*    p;

instead of

    int	    *p

to make it clear that "p" is a pointer to an int.  Heck, I've even seen 
such nonsense as this (fixed width font required!):

    int	*a;
    int  b;

to make the names line up.

And OK, not syntactical, but I loathe the dangling "{" as typified by K&R:

	if (...) {
	    ...
	}

All the arguments I've seen for this style are utterly specious, 
especially the one about saving a line on the screen; if so then why not 
move the "}" up to the end of the preceding statement and save another 
precious line?

-- Dave