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Re: Common way to obfuscate?

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From: Tim Hollebeek
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:59
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Marcel van Kervinck (buex95a@urc.tue.nl) wrote:
: I just recovered from a slight shock caused by realizing that
: one could legally rewrite 'a[b[c]]' as 'c[b][a]'

Right, since they are both *(a + *(b + c)).  Cute.

: Is this a common way to obfuscate code?

Wouldn't know.  I strive to write clear code :-)

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From: tim@franck.Princeton.EDU (Tim Hollebeek)
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Date: 10 Apr 1996 20:59:28 -0500
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