• marcos@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That *++ operator from C is indeed confusing.

    Reminds me of the goes-to operator: --> that you can use as:

    while(i --> 0) {
    
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      6 months ago

      That’s not a real operator. You’ve put a space in “i–” and removed the space in “-- >”. The statement is “while i-- is greater than zero”. Inventing an unnecessary “goes to” operator just confuses beginners and adds something else to think about while debugging.

      And yes I have seen beginners try to use <-- and --<. Just stop it.

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        6 months ago

        The sheer number of people that do not expect a joke on this community… (Really, if you are trying to learn how to program pay attention to the one without the Humor on the name, not here.)

        Well, I guess nobody expects.