[TUHS] v7 K&R C

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Rob Pike

    > Convenient though the shorthand may be, it always bothered me as
    > inconsistent and misleading.

As someone who made very extensive use of procedure pointers (most notably in
upcalls, which never caught on, alas), I couldn't agree more.

Two very different things are happenging, but with the shorthand notation,
they share an identical representation. And for what? To save three characters?

     Noel