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The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule''
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The 'Clockwise/Spiral Rule' is a mnemonic technique developed by David Anderson in 1994 to help C programmers parse complex variable declarations. The method involves spiraling through tokens in a declaration to translate them into plain English.
[This was posted to comp.lang.c by its author, David Anderson, on 1994-05-06.]
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