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[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That *++ operator from C is indeed confusing.

Reminds me of the goes-to operator: --> that you can use as:

while(i --> 0) {
[โ€“] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

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.