That’s not a real operator. You’ve put a space in “i–” and removed the space in “-- >”. The statement is “while i-- is greater than zero”. Inventing an unnecessary “goes to” operator just confuses beginners and adds something else to think about while debugging.
And yes I have seen beginners try to use <-- and --<. Just stop it.
The sheer number of people that do not expect a joke on this community… (Really, if you are trying to learn how to program pay attention to the one without the Humor on the name, not here.)
I didn’t know why, but *++p bugs me
welcome to C
Perhaps *(p += 1) will be to your liking?
Much better… but can we make it
*((void*)(p = p + 1))?How about some JavaScript
p+=[]**[]?That
*++operator from C is indeed confusing.Reminds me of the goes-to operator:
-->that you can use as:That’s not a real operator. You’ve put a space in “i–” and removed the space in “-- >”. The statement is “while i-- is greater than zero”. Inventing an unnecessary “goes to” operator just confuses beginners and adds something else to think about while debugging.
And yes I have seen beginners try to use <-- and --<. Just stop it.
The sheer number of people that do not expect a joke on this community… (Really, if you are trying to learn how to program pay attention to the one without the
Humoron the name, not here.)Well, I guess nobody expects.