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Jul 25, 2010 at 19:24 comment added Dennis Munsie That is a crazy way to write that -- something that if you saw in any code that you had to maintain would be a huge warning sign. Thankfully I haven't run across that... yet :)
Jul 25, 2010 at 16:37 comment added Donal Fellows In fact, you can rewrite array[n] as n[array] in C. It's not a good idea to do it, it's confusing! But it's legal (well, at least up to C89) because of that identity above and the fact that addition is commutative.
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