My intuition that it worked left-to-right came from Perl... where'd your reverse intuition come from, Mark? (Languages are so multifarious...) On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote: > Fascinating. Being self-taught in C, it's always interesting to learn > something new - even if it does go against intuition :)