"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>>   while(*v++ = *s++);
>>>
>>> I mean, what THE HELL...?
>>>
>>
>> I doubt that's the recommended way of copying an array any longer
>
> I doubt that was *ever* the "recommended" way. And yet I, a person who 
> doesn't know C very well, am aware of this example. What does that tell 
> you? ;-)

That you're looking for examples of why the language is incomprehensible.
That you had a bad lecturer/textbook at university
That you're reading up on why C++ is bad and what constructs are known to 
cause problems.

Taking the example to my prefered language, I'd say that 80% of people who 
have worked much with SQL can and will use cursors, yet every expert in SQL 
will tell people to never use them
Does that mean that SQL is incomprehensible to the average person and a 
language that's easy to break things in?

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