... between stupid and clever. A wise man called David St. Hubbins once said that.

And I learned early on that you end up looking stupid when you try to be clever.

Be explicit with your code, use parentheses liberally, and don't use the clever tricks K & R show you.

You'll understand your code in six months, the compiler will do what you expect, stepping through code in the debugger is a lot easier, and everyone will be a lot happier when it just works.

-a