[djcapelis]

I think the matter has been clarified for even the casual reader now and all your purposes have been fullfilled.

The argument can and should probably die away now.

The gist: C is a complex language and one line of code and operand can be used for many different things in many different circumstances. Know the differences between all of them, if you can express something in two different ways in C there's almost always a reason, know it.