Re: Hidden Features and Dark Corners of C++/STL
siddhant3s wrote:
Perhaps you missed the other partner of goes to: the ++< operator
And then what about these
while(x-->=0) //goes to and reach there
....and the last value will be -1, unless of course 'x' happens to be
unsigned which will then cause similar effects as the next one.
while(x++<=100) //goes to and reach there II
....and in the body you will get x==101 as last value, so it's the
dreaded "goes to and let other l337 h4x0rz 0wnz0r your boxen" operator.
while(x>>1) //goes to one but in a 'different' way
Nope, that one doesn't go anywhere, at least not without some help in the
body of the loop.
I mean c'mon, you can't be serious when you speaks '-->' as a
'goes to' operator. Thats a dirty way to remember a hack/idiom.
And the hack is pretty bad, because seemingly even a well-versed programmer
easily gets them wrong, as you volunteered to demonstrate. ;^)
Cheers & don't try this at home!
Uli
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