The wonders of C

[Wayne Berke]

> > > I was reading Creative Computing when I saw the most bogus C programming
> > > example.  The author was comparing C to Basic-
> > > 	Basic: if A=1 and B=1 goto 104950393040 [:->
> > > 	C: if (A==1 & B==1) foobar();
> > > Which works, of course, but it was clear from the context that the author
> > > thought that '&' and logical AND were identical!!!!  -- Mark Roddy
> > 
> > It doesn't work if A == 1 and B == 3.  It calls foobar when it shouldn't.

It sure does work. It simplifies to

	if (1==1 & 3==1) foobar()
	if (TRUE & FALSE) foobar()
	if (0x1 & 0x0) foobar()
	if (FALSE) foobar()

So foobar is correctly not invoked.