A question of style
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Tue Dec 5 16:37:43 AEST 1989
In article <565 at s5.Morgan.COM> amull at Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
-I would like to elaborate: There are no good excuses for the comma
-operator because it masquerades as true concurrent assignment where
-it is a poor relation of it.
No such thing. C's comma operator is specifically sequential,
not even remotely concurrent.
It has uses primarily in macros, occasionally in conditionals.
-... I am preparing a long
-treatment of this issue for posting in this newsgroup but I won't
-post it until it shrinks considerably, so for now I'll just divulge
-my provisional title: 'For construct considered harmful in C'.
How about entitling it "Pascal-think inappropriate for C".
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