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Everyone should write your second example. The first does nothing but confuse. C has enough hazing rituals without garbage like "-->". The fewer tricks and p
by colanderman 10y ago
Everyone should write your second example. The first does nothing but confuse. C has enough hazing rituals without garbage like "-->".
The fewer tricks and patterns you use in C, the higher chance actual bugs have of being caught. Cutesy tricks like "-->" confuse human analysis and gain nothing.
- yoha 10y agoThis is about weighing correction versus readability. In the "arrow operator" version, the readability is decreased; in the "proper" version, a type cast is required, and this can lead to bugs with values greater than 2^sizeof(ssize_t). Obviously, I just follow the convention when contributing to an existing project.
- pwdisswordfish 10y ago...values greater than 10?
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- cygx 10y agothis can lead to bugs with values greater than 2^sizeof(ssize_t) The range of indexable array elements is not only constrained by the unsigned type size_t, but also by the signed type ptrdiff_t, so you could always go with the latter instead of the non-ISO ssize_t.
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