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pjmlp on Oct 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Clockwise/Spiral Rule of C declarations

unambiguous?

Have you ever had to write a C parser?

Peaker on Oct 24, 2016 [–]

Yes, it is unambiguous, even if it is context-sensitive.

If you don't have the available type names then it becomes ambiguous.

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