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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:58:19 -0500
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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On 11/08/2011 02:35 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Lie Ryan<lie.1296@gmail.com>  wrote:
> <SNIP>
> I much prefer the "everything's an object" notion. C's array literals
> are just as weird (although in C, you can directly dereference a
> literal character array - "ABCDEFG"[note_idx] will give you a note
> name as a char)
Hey, in C you can also do

      note_idx["ABCDEFG"]

and get the selected character as if you had written what you showed.  
Plenty of opportunity in C to write illegible code.

-- 

DaveA