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I'm a bit better at English than c, and in the spirit of language peculiarities, this jumped out at me: > It's possible, because C cares less than more about w
by somewhereoutth 4y ago
I'm a bit better at English than c, and in the spirit of language peculiarities, this jumped out at me:
> It's possible, because C cares less than more about whitespace
Idiomatically we'd say 'couldn't care less'. I guess we should be glad it wasn't the diabolical and illogical 'could care less'
- Jedd 4y agoI don't believe those are functionally / semantically equivalent - couldn't care less does imply a min() value of care. In contrast, the author is suggesting a comparative only. And, on careful re-reading, I suspect the author is having a play on syntax & semantics here -- the context of the quote is: > You may ask, since when C has such operator and the answer is: since never. --> is not an operator, but two separate operators -- and > written in a way they look like one. It's possible, because C cares less than more about whitespace. Given that '--' is decrement (kind of 'lessen') and > is greater than (kind of 'more'). Perhaps I am reading too much into that. (I feel 'couldn't care less' is perhaps more common in northern America than elsewhere, and while TFA has a Gabon TLD, appears to be resident in Poland, so automatically receives a lot of leeway in their use of idiomatic English.)
- Jorengarenar 4y agoHah, unfortunately this bit of "poetry" wasn't intentional. I just meant that C does care about whitespace, just not a lot.
- somewhereoutth 4y agoAh apologies - I missed that subtlety. Unfortunately the whole 'could care less' debacle has left me somewhat triggerable. 'cares not so much' / 'doesn't care so much' might also work in your context.
- zabzonk 4y agoc does care about whitespace - compare: int x; with: intx;
- teo_zero 4y agoTry removing spaces here: *z = *x / *y; Or here: address = mask & &object; Or here: a = b - --c;