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Lloyd Hopkins <Lloyd@bomber.demon.co.uk> writes:
>I am having some difficulty with some of the examples in 5.12.  The first
>few are straight forward enough, but (for example):

>char (*(*x[3])())[5]

>is pretty confusing to figure!

There is a free program available on the net called "cdecl".

g% cdecl
Type `help' or `?' for help
cdecl> explain char (*(*x[3])())[5]
declare x as array 3 of pointer to
  function returning pointer to array 5 of char
cdecl> quit

It's very useful for reading other people's code.
Weird declarations like that are seldom useful.
More usual would be

    typedef char (*five_char_ptr)[5];
    typedef five_char_ptr (*five_char_function_ptr)();
    five_char_function_ptr x[3];

I can live with two type constructors (*, [], or ()) in a declaration,
but three is a bit too much.

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