🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael J. Creutz wrote:
 > 
 >  >: 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 :-).
 > 

You mean that i[A] is preferred to A[i] ? I don't agree. The standard makes the 
two identical, but I wouldn't want to maintain code using the latter approach. 
Well, maybe if you were coding Lisp...

Later,
 AriL
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