>If you use ++ in a sizeof expression...you're probably getting what you deserve. For every developer who reads your comment and learns something, there's goin

>If you use ++ in a sizeof expression...you're probably getting what you deserve. For every developer who reads your comment and learns something, there's going to be one who commits a bug based on this issue to a production repo without realizing it. When it comes to discovering this kind of minutia in programming languages, it basically goes down one of two ways: Either you randomly stumble across information about the hazard on stack overflow (or hacker news, in my case), or you blunder right into it at least once. I call these kinds of quirks "landmines". I prefer my languages landmine-free, or as close to it as we could hope to achieve. This kind of behavior is definitely not something to make quips about, it's exactly the kind of language flaw that might cause government software to bill incorrectly calculated invoices to people who can't afford it, or overbook planes and cause confusion at airports. Maybe I've misinterpreted your comment, but your comment reads like you think of this sort of detail as "separating the men from the boys". It's totally not doing that. What it's really doing is randomly blowing up civilians.