On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:34:28PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Can the effect of the following C function
>
> static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what)
> {

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> be considered obvious or should it rather get an explanation?
> ?


katolaZ said:

Well, it will depend on the audience. It's a pretty basic example and
if one has got some expeience of writing C code would get it at the
first read (even without your explanation at the end, I guess). If the
audience is a freshman module in programming, I wouldn't use it as a
first example ;)

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