Comma and semicolon

[KW Heuer]

In article <118 at danews.UUCP> danews!lvc writes:
>	printf("usage: foo bar\n") , return 1 ;
>seems reasonably "within C's style".  Comments ?

It would've been nice if the "," operator and the ";" separator had been
the same token, but they aren't.  They happen to be interchangeable in one
instance (both sides statement-expressions, and not the body of an if/else/
while/do/switch without braces), that's all.

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