scott wrote:

> Sure, I didn't doubt there was a pretty easy explanation behind it, it's 
> just [], _ and the whole statement syntax had no meaning to me before it 
> was explained.  I would imagine once Andrew knew what -- and * does in C 
> (I think < and ! are common enough not to need to explain?) he would 
> know what the statement he highlighted meant too.  I don't see much 
> difference.

I *already* know that * is pointer dereference and -- is decriment. But 
now I have to sit here and wonder "is that pre-decriment or 
post-decriment? And in why is it 'not (x < y)" rather than 'x >= y'?" 
And similar questions. (Why "for (;;)" rather than "while true"? Is 
there some difference?)

(Also... I just noticed how many one-letter variable names there are. So 
much for that being a bad thing.)

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