Slime wrote:
>> I have a similar issue with stuff like
>>
>>   while (*x++ = *y++) {}
> 
> FYI, I have an issue with stuff like that too. C and C++ do make it easy to 
> write bad code. 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.

	The truth is that there is no shortage of programmers out there who 
write like this. I've literally read a C (or was it C++) book  that 
admitted it was obfuscated, and in the same breath suggesting that the 
reader should become accustomed to it because those constructs are common.

-- 
The meek shall inherit the dearth.


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