RE: CREATORS ADMIT C AND UNIX A HOAX!

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wondered about the postfix minus operator. Didn't you add a semicolon,
too?

I think this message would be just as readable as the C code sample if I
eliminated capital letters and  spaces but retained the punctuation marks.
It's just that C syntax allows you do do stuff like that or , as my teacher
in junior college used to say, "C doesn't care."  Whitespace is pretty much
for the convenience of humans.  <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:54 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: CREATORS ADMIT C AND UNIX A HOAX!
>
>
>
> I believe the problem is the "e-" and "R-".  They should
> probably be "e--"
> and "R--", and someone's e-mail editor somewhere decided it'd
> be helpful,
> and convert "--" into a longer dash... (I know Word would do that) and
> then when it got converted back to plain text, it was just one...
>
> The following code compiles:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> void P(const char *);
>
> main () {
>      int *u, k, R, e, C;
>
> for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("|"+(*u/4)%2);
> }
>
> void P(const char *huh) {
>    printf("%s", huh);
> }
>
> It certainly doesn't do anything useful, though... and it
> crashes pretty
> quick, since adding to the pointer returned by "_" and "|" is
> a REALLY bad
> idea...
>
> Oh well... I was hoping the code would do something cool like print a
> message or something.  sigh.
>
>
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