alt Hacker NewsThe horrifying side effect of this is that "arr[idx]" is equal to "idx[arr]", so "5[arr]" is just as valid as "arr[5]".
Your colleagues would probably prefer if you forget this.
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Joker_vD • today at 1:26 PM
> so "5[arr]" is just as valid as "arr[5]"
This is, I am sure, one of the stupid legacy reasons we still write "lr a0, 4(a1)" instead of more sensible "lr a0, a1[4]". The other one is that FORTRAN used round parentheses for both array access and function calls, so it stuck somehow.
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