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[John L. Furlani]

In article <2803 at hound.UUCP>, rkl1 at hound.UUCP (K.LAUX) writes:
> In article <45370 at yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, wald-david at CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) writes:
> > 
> > You can't assign to a ++ expression.
> > 
> 
> 	Of course you can!  For example, a simple string copy function:
> 
> copy_string (from, to)
> char *from;
> char *to;
> {
> 	while (*to++ = *from++)
> 		;
> }
> 

Take another look.
You aren't assigning anything to the ++ expression.
Oops.
You are assigning something to what is contained in the pointers. 
The *pointers* are being incremented.
David Wald was correct, you can't assign to a ++ expression.
Try it and watch what happens.


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