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Petr Zemek
Personal blog · blog.petrzemek.netprogrammingsystems
Petr Zemek's personal blog at blog.petrzemek.net covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Pros and Cons of Alternative Function Syntax in C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on C++ alternative function syntax. One commenter cites it when discussing how function pointer declarations can be written more readably.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Pros and Cons of Alternative Function Syntax in C++3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
- Things About Vim I Wish I Knew Earlier2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-17
What Hacker News says?
The new c++ alt function syntax talked about here: https://blog.petrzemek.net/2017/01/17/pros-and-cons-of-alter... mentions replacing function declarations for void (*get_func_on(int i))(int); with auto get_func_on(int i) -> void (*)(int); which looks a lot more readable to me.
Comment linking /2017/01/17/pros-and-cons-of-alternative-function-syntax-in-cpp/
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HN discussionSubmitted Pros and Cons of Alternative Function Syntax in C++ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pros and Cons of Alternative Function Syntax in C++ as a story · 1 points
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