Aside: to this day, that sort of ad-hoc syntax makes me gag. K&R should be publicly flogged on a regular basis.
Since I'm to blame for raising the subject that turned into a thread about "the right exposition", I hereby surrender myself to be flogged in lieu of the intended. I've deserved it for years, just for how I've found perversely delightful ways to use the C preprocessor. Especially token-pasting. K&R (the book) was almost indecent exposure -- it left nothing to the imagination. As opposed to most writing on Haskell, where I'm befuddled because it's not at all obvious how it does its thing. It's like you're not /supposed/ to know. But K&R let it all hang out, and for that reason, I loved it. Whip me, beat me, make me write C code. Because that's just the kind of pervert I am. Still, sometimes. Regards, Michael Turner Executive Director Project Persephone 1-25-33 Takadanobaba Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-0075 Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682 turner@projectpersephone.org Understand - http://www.projectpersephone.org/ Join - http://www.facebook.com/groups/ProjectPersephone/ Donate - http://www.patreon.com/ProjectPersephone Volunteer - https://github.com/ProjectPersephone "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry