Re: Good C Interview questions?

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From: Michael J. Creutz
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:30

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 >: Chris Sonnack <cjsonnack@mmm.com> wrote:
 >: >My personal favorite:
 >: >
 >: >Given:
 >: >	char*  A = "hello" ;
 >: >	int    i =  3 ;
 >: >
 >: >It's obvious that:
 >: >
 >: >	A [i] == 'l'
 >: >
 >: >But what is:
 >: >
 >: >	i [A] == ???

What's confusing about this?  The "i'th element of A" is
about as intuitive as you can get.  Only frustrated fortran
programmers would prefer the former :-).

Mike

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Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:30:33 -0600
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