AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Don Kinzer" <dkinzer@...> wrote:
>
> By the way, some would prefer to
> write the statement above slightly
> differently, e.g.
> lcd_putc(pgm_read_byte_near(BootString + i));

Yes indeed, and I would try to keep those people away from someone learning the C language.  I am a strong advocate of writing the code in a way that explains what you expect it to do.  If you're locating an element in an array, I believe that you should use array notation to do it, not pointer arithmetic.  This avoids, for example, the inevitable confusion of inexperienced C programmers when they find that p += 1 may add two or four to p, depending on the size of the object it points to.

Pleeeeeeeeeease, don't let's start an argument about this.  I put the above forward only as my opinion (although not humble - sorry) and fully accept the validity of other people's opinions.

Graham.