Re: Fwd: how this C code works?

["Diwakar - tamil.com" <diwakaran@xxxxxxxxx>]

only i later i learnt that it's a joke intended for C programmers!

thanks!

- Diwakar

At 10:46 PM 25-01-01 +0530, you wrote:
>Try this: really weird code to swap values of two int-type variables
>without overflows in C or Perl (and maybe other insignificant
>languages like Java and Python also... as if anyone cared):
>
>        i^=j^=i^=j
>
>C isn't too bad sometimes... just that Perl is better ;-)  I would
>never have shifted from C to Perl if there were even one thing which I
>could do in C and not in Perl... haven't found that missing bit yet.
>
>-- Raju

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