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Did you know there is a "down to" operatorin C? (stackoverflow.com)

submitted 3 years ago by xarvos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

While it is practical and works, it is not an operator by itself. It a combination of two, the unary decrementation and greater than comparator.

Read it as i-- > value.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm not sure which I think is worse. Having an explicit down-to operator or being able to combine operators in a way that confuses experienced programmers.

[–] miguel@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

This kind of combined operators are quite common in the competitive programming world, where the speed of coding is more important than readable.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, still horrid for real-world programming, though, where readability is ten times as important as how quickly you can type it out.

[–] tmpod 1 points 2 years ago

I'd argue the problem here is more the unary (in/de)crement operator. It isn't really necessary and most of the time it doesn't make stuff more readable.