On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Incrementing a var is much less likely to have unpredictable effects
due to modifying the wrong memory. Sure, x might be a pointer, and
things might gang agley there, but pointers getting set to the wrong
type of pointee is a pretty common problem, and one that I'm happy to
have some runtime support in locating.
My point is that
*d = *s;
is no more a weird cryptic construct than
n++;
or
while (*s)
*d++ = *s++;
for that matter.
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