Compilers and programming style (was Re: A question of style)

[john jeter]

In article <15065 at bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
> If you have a specialized systems/hardware-type situation where merely
> referring to a variable has useful side effects, then you can cast it
> to (void) or some such, to make this obvious. 
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A little used alternate approach is the usage of the commentary operator
in close proximity to the variable reference. ;-)