Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!umaecs!amh!twpierce From: twpierce@amherst.bitnet (Tim Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: # to the nth power Message-ID: <11106.27385447@amherst.bitnet> Date: 7 Nov 90 18:36:55 GMT References: <9750@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Nov1.232830.17131@NCoast.ORG> <1990Nov3.220554.19404@zoo.toronto.edu> <226@smds.UUCP> Lines: 19 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <226@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes: >> for (y=x,sqrtx=1;y>0;) {ysave = y;y =/ 16;sqrtx =* 4;} > > Wow. > > This man has been programming in C for a *long* time. I'm impressed. > > (quiz: why do I come to this conclusion?) Because of the archaic operators! (I knew I'd get something right someday!) Someone else suggested that this might have been a typo -- however, since he uses postfix twice, (postfix is not the right term, I know, but for lack of a better one...) in "y =/ 16" and "sqrtx =* 4", this is less likely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Pierce | "They call television a medium. That is because twpierce@amherst.bitnet | it is neither rare nor well done." - Ernie Kovacs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------