more questions about efficient C code

[Henry Spencer]

> ...  Any experienced C programmer recognizes this code
> automatically and produces it without thinking.  You have problems with
> it because you are not an experienced C programmer yet.

Rubbish.  "Any experienced programmer should be able to understand that"
really means "we know it's hard to read, but...".  The idea is to make
life as easy as possible for the poor guy who has to maintain the stuff
next.  Note "as easy as possible", as opposed to "not quite impossible".

I've been programming in C for over a decade, by the way.
-- 
"Maturity means doing what's right, not just what's easy."

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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