>The amazing part about examples like that is people read them, check that the compiler really does work on that basis, and then continue writing things in C++

>The amazing part about examples like that is people read them, check that the compiler really does work on that basis, and then continue writing things in C++ anyway. Wild. Well, in modern C++ this code would look like this: std::array<int, 4> table; bool exists_in_table(int v) { for (auto &elem : table) { if (elem == v) return true; } return false; } Or even simpler: std::array<int, 4> table; bool exists_in_table(int v) { return std::ranges::contains(table, v); } There's no shortage of footguns in C++, but nonetheless, modern C++ is safer than C.