Re: const char* typedefs

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Feb 5, 2018, at 8:00 PM, nobody <nobody+lua-list@afra-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-02-05 23:50, Paige DePol wrote:
>> They also like putting the * for pointers on the variable name, which
>> is what Lua does as well. My previous experience with Obj-C usually
>> put the * with the type, which makes more sense to me, but I am now
>> used to putting it with the var name so either way works.
> 
> That's because in C
> 
>   Foo* bar, baz;
> 
> probably isn't what you want[1], and with
> 
>   Foo *bar, baz;
> 
> it's easier to notice.
> 
> -- nobody
> 
> [1]  bar is a pointer, baz isn't.
> 

Which is an argument in favor of the typedef, since:

typedef const char *l_str;
l_str bar, baz;

DOES work correctly.

—Tim