Re: C standard question?

Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote, On 10/05/08 18:55:
> On May 8, 4:35 am, Jack Klein <jackkl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> I would have a hard time believing that any people in the world other
>> than you write the ridiculous "char unsigned".

<snip insulting material>

> If you're too mentally retarded to answer that question correctly then
> you'll probably too imcompetent of a programmer to read other people's
> code.

It is not a question about whether people can understand it, it is a 
question about what they can understand fastest. The brain is a truly 
wonderful pattern matching system, and almost all C programmers brains 
are trained to match against the pattern "unsigned char" rather than 
"char unsigned". So by going against convention you are forcing people 
to stop using the fast method of gaining the information and switch to a 
far slower method. When you have to review a few thousand lines of code 
written by someone else you will start to appreciate convention, and as 
the amount of code goes up you will appreciate it more and more.

Oh, and if you want to discus C then insulting intelligent experienced 
and even expert C programmers is not the best way to go about it.
-- 
Flash Gordon