On 8/1/2011 4:13, Lars R. wrote:
> It is not surprising if you _know_ C.
> i.o.w. if it is surprising for you, your C knowledge are incomplete. ^^

Sure. It's also surprising when your leg disappears, simply because while 
you know you're in a minefield, your knowledge of that minefield is incomplete.

That doesn't mean it's a *good* thing. Yes, it can be surprising even to 
those who know C well enough to write an operating system kernel in it. The 
whole "it's only surprising if you don't know it'll happen" tautology is 
silly. The problem is that composing two perfectly valid statements makes an 
invalid program that behaves completely differently than how you would 
expect from each of those two statements separately.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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