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| C Arrays |
| Sun September 13th, 2009 at 7:35 PM PDT |
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Oh hi, haven't been here in a while, just thought I'd stop in and rant a little bit. I know a lot of people (myself included) like to rip on Java for its obnoxiously verbose syntax, like how the standard library frequently makes you write the same thing out 3 or 4 times in one statement. Well I've been working in C a lot lately, and suffering from the same problem. Say I want to declare a dynamically-allocated array of IP addresses, with an initial size of 10. In C that means typing this: struct in_addr *array = (struct in_addr *) malloc(10 * sizeof(struct in_addr));Seriously now C, is that really necessary? I just typed out struct in_addr 3 times in one statement.Yeah, I know you can leave out the explicit cast to struct in_addr *, but then when you turn on compiler warnings you get yelled at a lot, and I like my compiler to check stuff for me.Luckily in C++ they have made this a little better, by making you not have to call malloc to allocate memory, and not having to multiply by the datatype size when making an array, and not even having to specify the struct keyword:in_addr *array = new in_addr[10];Cool. But I'm stuck using C for my university networking assignments, so I think I'm just going to write some preprocessor macros to do the typing for me. ;P -WRF |
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