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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Readability part I - code
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:35:25 -0700
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Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> That reminds me - I still have the construct (n|a,b,c,...|z) to select 
> the nth value from a list, but I haven't managed to express that in C 
> yet. I might have to use that gcc extension after all as it calls for a 
> switch statement inside an expression.)

(int[]){a, b, c}[n]

Though it creates an array object, which might be overkill.

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