OMG! You can actually look at some of Ritchie's earliest C compiler code:https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc …
I need to find time to go through this because I always wanted to know what structural situation lead to the declaration syntax.
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I feel like there must be an answer in there somewhere, because the obvious way to write a parser wouldn't favor C's syntax...
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... which means I must not be thinking of the same "obvious" that Ritchie was thinking of, and I want to know what I'm missing...
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the good news is that with helpful file names like "c01.c", it will be easy to find the answers you seek!
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