Re: do { quit; } else { }

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

On 2025-04-13, Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

The funny thing is that in original C prefix form of [] indexing was
equivalent to the postfix form.  May be, it still is in C23, I didn't
try to look in the docs or test.

>
Are you thinking of a[i] being *(a + i) being i[a] due to commutativity?
>
That's really not a useful feature. Actually right down to a + i being
commutative when a is a pointer. It would be fine if only the
<pointer> + <integer> combination were allowed.

Agreed.  The feature goes back to B, which was largely untyped, and
there wasn't a strong distinction between integers and pointers.  An
expression like 5[6] would refer to a memory location, and depending
on the system it might even work.

The transition from B to C was an opportunity to restrict the ordering
of the operands, but it wasn't taken.

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