> You’d understand it if you were a C developer. Counterpoint: I'm a C developer and a big fan of Andreas and I prefer mildly clever code over longer explicit

> You’d understand it if you were a C developer. Counterpoint: I'm a C developer and a big fan of Andreas and I prefer mildly clever code over longer explicit code. But even then I was still surprised by his choice to keep this specific hack. It feels very brittle to me.