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C4 – C in 4 functions

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517 points petercooper | 1 comments | 04 Nov 14 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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abecedarius ◴[04 Nov 14 21:23 UTC] No.8559116[source]▶
On a first skim, this looks really nice; complaints that it's unreadable are unfounded. The background that makes it readable are Wirth's Compiler Construction http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf plus precedence climbing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser#Prec...
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tomp ◴[05 Nov 14 09:24 UTC] No.8561057[source]▶
> complaints that it's unreadable are unfounded

    int *a, *b;
    int t, *d;
I can't really see how anyone can say that code that uses one-letter variable names (with the exception of the "standard ones", whose meaning is defined at the top) is readable.
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1. abecedarius ◴[05 Nov 14 19:54 UTC] No.8563882[source]▶
OK, 'unfounded' was a little too strong. I'd change some things myself, including comments on those declarations; but if this looks like a code-golf game to you, it's not, it's a style you're not used to.