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isomorphic-on Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

Guys. This commit was made Feb 3, 2022. Stop spamming the GitHub repo with dumb memes. It's not Twitter. The comments are for developer collaboration.

isomorphic-on Lessons learnt while trying to modernize some C code (2022)

C uses `declaration follows use` for its declaration syntax. This means that instead of `char* p` we write `char *p`. https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-C-use-better-notation-for-p...

Also, "decay" is a terrible way to describe the conversion of arrays to pointers-to-their-first-element. "Decaying" implies permanence and that the array is changing/decaying. This isn't the case. The array doesn't permanently change into a pointer. It is the expression that is converted rather than the array itself.

This article is terrible.