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East const vs West const

East const vs West const

Posted Sep 13, 2021 14:47 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Cro: Maintain it With Zig by tialaramex
Parent article: Cro: Maintain it With Zig

OMG! I had no idea these styles had names! I'm a strong proponent of East const, which makes way more sense to me that West const. Now I feel like I'm part of a community instead of a lone programmer tilting against windmills. :)

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East const vs West const

Posted Sep 16, 2021 8:25 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

West is favored by people who wish they were coding C; east by people glad to be coding C++.

East "*" is generally worse. It is favored by compiler writers and people who glory in being a PITA, and practically nobody else.

But it is not hard to read any of them. Or, even, mixed on the same page; it just looks untidy. There are worse sins. Clang-format fixes everything without fuss.


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