It's easy in a little two-line snippet discovered in the context of a discussion about operator overloading. It's much less easy to understand when grepping for

It's easy in a little two-line snippet discovered in the context of a discussion about operator overloading. It's much less easy to understand when grepping for a config file name (which is where I found it) where you don't even have the declaration of the variable to give you the context that you're dealing with anything other than char*.