Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!reed!bart From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Bizarre Code Message-ID: <1800@reed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:49:09 EDT Article-I.D.: reed.1800 Posted: Wed Aug 14 13:49:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:15:35 EDT References: <462@moncol.UUCP> Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 31 > What is the most bizarre line/piece of code you have seen in a production > program? > > My favorite (in BASIC) is: > > X = N & -1 > > which is the equivalent of: > > X = INT(N) > > > I know there must be some better(?) ones out there. Let's see em'. So name five lines of BASIC you COULDN'T call bizarre! I've seen an official 'ls' source ( I don't remember which version of UN*X ) which says int i,j; .... i = j << 0; or some such. The '<< 0' motif is was repeated several times throughout the code... Bart Massey ..tektronix!reed!bart "I want to speak to Dr... uh..."