Slime wrote:

> This is the second time you've mentioned that example, so I 
> assume someone once showed it to you and thought they were being clever. 
> They weren't! Or maybe it's just a popular example, because I was just 
> reading a book about coding style last night that gave that as a bad 
> example.

More like, "it's the only bit of C that I know". (I'd use an example of 
printf() or something, but first I'd have to find an example that's 
actually *correct*...)

Both C and C++ are positively *bursting* with features that are subtle, 
counter-intuitive and cryptic. This isn't exactly news. C++ at least 
appears to be something of an improvement in this regard...

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