cond. op. on ='s LHS

[John D. Mitchell]

In article <16754 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com> volpe at camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe) writes:
[....]
>Yes, it's ugly, but it's conceivable that someone might have a good
>reason for defining a macro to do this, so that the macro may be used
>in an expression context.              

Aahhh!  But context *is* everything.

One reason to use macros is to hide this sort of cryptic code behind
a nice facade.  Oh well... if only C had...  :-)

----	John D. Mitchell
	johnm at cory.Berkeley.EDU