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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: C++20 concepts rocks
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Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:

> Am 06.02.2022 um 01:42 schrieb red floyd:
>
>> On 2/5/2022 10:51 AM, Bonita Montero wrote:
>>
>>>> On 2/4/2022 11:53 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  char *ep = (&result)[1];
>>>>
>>>> Am 05.02.2022 um 19:10 schrieb red floyd:
>>>> Why the oddly unreadable initialization of ep?  Why not just
>>>>
>>>>  char *ep = result + sizeof(result)?
>>>
>>> I also consider (&result)[1] as the more elegant way.
>>
>> To be honest, I don't give a damn about your opinion.
>
> Your solution works only with char-arrays.
> Tims solution works with all arrays.

I don't claim any credit for this idiom.  I first learned the
idiom some time ago from a posting by Ben Bacarisse, and my
posting upthread here was simply copying the usage from his
earlier posting (which was in fact the posting to which I was
responding).