[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (offtopic) C subscripts; was Re: Compiler-warnings

[Dirk Stoecker <stoecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Reinier Post wrote:

> > This is required often, when doing pointer arithmetics and accessing
> > fields, which have already been processd (e.g. when using *(p++)) and
> > for any reason needing it again.
> > 
> > But I prefer to use *(p-1) instead of p[-1], as this is much better style.
> 
> I'm no better programmer than you are, but I don't think mixing pointers
> and subscripts is good style at all.

A matter of personal style I think. But usually I don't mix them up as
well.

So lets take another example. On Amiga there are some structures, which
have negative offset fields. And I still prefer to access them
*(seglist-1) instead of seglist[-1] :-)

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