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by reddit_clone 3752 days ago
Yes! I was scrolling down looking for this.

Long long ago when I encountered the string copy idiom in C 'while (s++ = t++)' for the first time, it left me scratching my head for a bit. Then it becomes a part of your vocabulary.

Native idioms make communication better.

People often misunderstand 'basic' for 'simple'.