I love relational operators so much

[Andrey Vul]

C's handling of 'if' leads to a lot of room for obfuscation. All you
have to do is replace ';' with '|' for compound expressions and add
parentheses as neccessary.
if (x)
y;
else
z;
becomes
((x)&&(y))
||(z);

for compounds,
if (x)
y;z;a;b;
else
c;d;e;f;
becomes
((x) && ((y)|(z)|(a)|(b))
||((c)|(d)|(e)|(f));

C is so much fun to obfuscate. Gotta love ISO 9899.
The result is still more readable than perl, though.

 

[Andrey Vul]

C's handling of 'if' leads to a lot of room for obfuscation. All you
have to do is replace ';' with '|' for compound expressions and add
parentheses as neccessary.
if (x)
 y;
else
 z;
becomes
((x)&&(y))
||(z);

for compounds,
if (x)
 y;z;a;b;
else
 c;d;e;f;
becomes
((x) && ((y)|(z)|(a)|(b))
||((c)|(d)|(e)|(f));

Uh oh, | isn't gonna work on for- or while-loops.

 

[Andrey Vul]

Uh oh, | isn't gonna work on for- or while-loops.

But it does work for pure-sequentials e.g., do{ ... }while(0), etc.

 

[Andrey Vul]

Uh oh, | isn't gonna work on for- or while-loops.

and void()s

but void() => int() by changing return to return 0

 

[Eric Sosman]

C's handling of 'if' leads to a lot of room for obfuscation. All you
have to do is replace ';' with '|' for compound expressions and add
parentheses as neccessary.
if (x)
y;
else
z;
becomes
((x)&&(y))
||(z);

I tried your suggestion, with `exit(0)' for `z', and
my compiler complained. Should I sue the vendor?

for compounds,
if (x)
y;z;a;b;
else
c;d;e;f;

... is a syntax error.

 

[Beej Jorgensen]

I tried your suggestion, with `exit(0)' for `z', and
my compiler complained. Should I sue the vendor?

vendor==MICROSOFT && printf("Sue Sue!\n"); // ;-)

-Beej

 

[Richard Bos]

vendor==MICROSOFT && printf("Sue Sue!\n"); // ;-)

You surprise me. I'd expect a M$-written implementation, if it started
emitting girls' names, to choose "Daisy, Daisy...".

Richard

 

[Morris Keesan]

It has to become something like
(x) && (y, 1)
|| (z);

And both forms are illegal if z has void type. See 6.5.13 p2.

 

[dragan]

C's handling of 'if' leads to a lot of room for obfuscation. All you
have to do is replace ';' with '|' for compound expressions and add
parentheses as neccessary.

I see no love in that. "plonk" for false advertising.

 

[Phil Carmody]

C's handling of 'if' leads to a lot of room for obfuscation. All you
have to do is replace ';' with '|' for compound expressions and add
parentheses as neccessary.

for compounds,
if (x)
y;z;a;b;
else
c;d;e;f;
becomes
((x) && ((y)|(z)|(a)|(b))
||((c)|(d)|(e)|(f));

Codswallop. You clearly have avoided learning anything about
order of evaluation. Which, given that it's one of the most
commonly discussed things on c.l.c, is either terribly sloppy,
or deliberate. Neither being commendable.

C is so much fun to obfuscate. Gotta love ISO 9899.
The result is still more readable than perl, though.

Almost any language can be made practically un readable.
Some just make it trivial, or even natural.

Phil