Cryptic C Code ... I thought that was the point!

Someone had a problem with his strnicmp() as - seemingly - it's not portable (not ANSI).

I told him to make a macro like the following, he was only checking one character anyway:

#define TOUPPER(c) ( c & ~('a' ^ 'A') )

He said it was too cryptic! Too cryptic!! I thought that was the point of C!

Besides, that's not cryptic. I think people just don't know how to code these days.


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