What to do after Python?

[Roy Smith]

Kenneth Loafman <ken at lt.com> wrote:
> Consider one case I found
> where the goal was to remove the last character of a line.  Instead of
> using something like:
> 
>    if (strlen(s)) s[strlen(s)-1] = 0
> 
> the (7-year C++ veteran) wrote several lines of code that:
> 
>    reversed the string
>    trimmed the first char
>    re-reversed the string

How about:

   if (length = strlen(s))
      s[length-1] = 0;

and cut your instruction count in half :-)