Re: strange call

Context:
f()[2] = 'x';

Malcolm said:

"Richard Heathfield" wrote...

It's a perfectly legal shorthand for:

int *p = f();
p[2] = 'x';

without going to all the trouble and inconvenience of defining a
temporary object p to store the pointer value returned by f.

At the cost of considerable trouble and inconvenience for Kavya, who has
the unhappy task of reading this code.

Yes. I'm not overly keen on it either, but occasionally I've been guilty of
the equivalent, *strchr(foo, bar) = baz, when I knew for sure that bar
appears in foo. Tsk tsk, as they say...

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