Re:C is not your friend: sizeof and side-effects
by Etzos on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:21PM
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This seems like a bit of a knee-jerk reaction on your part. The article itself is interesting and points out an edge case which is likely to trip people up in certain situations. I don't really see the article mentioning or even hinting that "C is evil", it even includes a bit of a qualifier at the end: "C is reaching PHP-like levels of confusion here, but luckily for us this combination . . . is pretty hard to hit. I’ve never seen it in “real” code."
Re:C is not your friend: sizeof and side-effects
by buserror on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:31PM
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A bit yes, I have to admit this. However it's not HARD to find new&interesting way of screwing up with the language, it's been done for longer than I'm alive, and some people abused it in extraordinary ways over the years [0], so all I can think of when I see that sort of article is 'HN clickbait'. It works. It's actually borderline trolling at this rate.
Re:C is not your friend: sizeof and side-effects
by blackflame7000 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:29PM
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To be fair the article is called "C is not your friend"
FYI, your mouse is also dangerous, you can easily click the wrong way and send all your money away to someone in Nigeria. Should we blame the mouse?