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Comment by zozbot234

25 days ago

A postfix "*" would be completely redundant since you can just use p[0] . Instead of *p++ you'd have (p++)[0] - still quite workable.

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fastaguy88  25 days ago

You're kidding, right? (p++)[0] returns the contents of (p) before the ++. Its hard to imagine a more confusing juxtaposition.

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