binkle, 6 months ago

@nekofag what'd you do

diazepam, 6 months ago

@nekofag what the fuck did you tell him

nekofag, 6 months ago

@diazepam he made a stupid autistic point claiming that visual studio was "aligning the pointer wrong" (suggesting int* x with its intellitype thing) and i called him a retard and said it was really just a style choice anyway and he blocked me

binkle, 6 months ago

@nekofag @diazepam iirc isn’t int *x preferred over int* x because of the whole int* x, y thing

nekofag, 6 months ago

@binkle @diazepam its really a style choice. Like int* x; can mean to some people "int pointer" and mentally its a fine way to think since 95% of the time when you think of pointers you are assuming that logic and only assigning one pointer to a variable. Its not supposed to be correct in the context of a compiler, but to a human being programmer its not a big deal.

The rest of it is habit and literal style preference. Old habits die hard; I personally can't break it. I work around the whole pointer thing by doing int* x, * y; and adding that space you see intentionally to be consistent.

In theory "intellitype" should've intelligently figured out his pointer style preference. With his logic you could also assume there is a correct way to name symbols (start_x, StartX, startX)... its all style and habit and what people prefer at the end of the day.