Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: What's a C expert? Message-ID: <9508@alice.UUCP> Date: 19 Jun 89 21:07:15 GMT References: <12214@well.UUCP> <6057@microsoft.UUCP> Distribution: all Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 15 In article <6057@microsoft.UUCP>, paulc@microsoft.UUCP (Paul Canniff 2/1011) writes: > How about ... understands why a[i] equals i[a] and CAN EXPLAIN IT, > knows what a trigraph is, and can tell why the following code > prints "false" (on 8-bit char systems). > char x = 0xff; > if (x != 0xff) > printf("FALSE\n"); ... or why it doesn't print anything at all on other 8-bit char systems. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com