Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:22:10 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 26 Message-ID: <87v7f212pp.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10n80sc$3soe4$1@dont-email.me> <86v7feei2e.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10o53k6$1i0ef$2@dont-email.me> <86ms0peby6.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10ockdh$3qpk6$1@dont-email.me> <10ocrjn$3qpk6$2@dont-email.me> <10od64s$3qpk6$4@dont-email.me> <86ikb9bmtw.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10oem5t$n5hk$1@dont-email.me> <86o6kz9zng.fsf@linuxsc.com> <878qc3ywuk.fsf@example.invalid> <864imma17o.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cdc5ea97d5e7028cbd6d638d06ccefec"; logging-data="1506802"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lUqRW8yAAHzECbTCZqOH1" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zw82C3iiKkYk6nySeoH87GGznvM= sha1:adpA0XNDimyw0MiqzzApIASINt4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:396914 Tim Rentsch writes: > Keith Thompson writes: >> Tim Rentsch writes: >> [...] >> >>> typedef size_t Z; >>> typedef _Bool B; >> >> [...] >> >> Why do you do this? I find that it makes the code more difficult >> to read. > > The reaction from Lew Pitcher was "Brilliant!". The reaction from > DFS was "I think he knocked it out of the park." Because Lew and > DFS (and to some extent Michael S) are the ones who had expressed > an interest in my counter challenge, they were my target audience. > So from my point of view there is no reason to be dissatisfied with > what was posted. You are of course not obligated to answer, but surely it would be easier not to post a followup at all. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */