This is excellent chewing material, hence the upvotes. One thing I sorely miss (as someone who is sorely underexperienced at C) is the lack of hints for the re

This is excellent chewing material, hence the upvotes. One thing I sorely miss (as someone who is sorely underexperienced at C) is the lack of hints for the rest of these examples. I'm reading them and trying to keep up with what they do. (I must admit, I am one of probably many who (lazily!) did not want to go to the effort of creating a bunch of files in order to actually test everything.)