What's wrong with printf( ) , return ?

[KW Heuer]

In article <123 at danews.UUCP> danews!lvc writes:
>I knew that return wasn't an expression.  The fact that you can
>do `control flow' with , seperating expressions makes me wonder
>why this wasn't extended to include 'some' statements such as return.

It makes about as much sense as "printf() + return".  Comma in this context
is an *operator*.  A more serious argument would be to allow the statement
"return ((void)printf())", which would make sense if "void" were a real
datatype.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint