From kde-core-devel  Fri May 29 10:07:40 2009
From: Frank Osterfeld <frank.osterfeld () gmx ! de>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:07:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KConfigIniBackend::stringToPrintable optimization patch
Message-Id: <200905291207.41113.frank.osterfeld () gmx ! de>
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On Friday 29 May 2009 11:33:15 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:41:38AM +0200, Mirko Boehm wrote:

> anyway, that whole argumentation makes no sense unless you completely
> forbid char *foo, bar, **baz;
> style declarations. while i agree that using this c[++] feature is not
> so nice in declarations of class members and global objects (both of
> which should have expressive names), i'll readily laugh in the face of
> anyone who tells me not to use "char c, *cp;" or the like in a function
> with 10 lines.

Personally I wouldn't sacrifice readibility of ~99.5%ish of all pointer 
occurrences for consistency with the other ~0.5%. How often do you actually 
see "char c, *cp" etc. in Qt/KDE code?

Frank