cond. op. on ='s LHS

Christopher R Volpe volpe at camelback.crd.ge.com
Fri Feb 15 07:30:12 AEST 1991


In article <11129 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, johnm at cory.Berkeley.EDU (John
D. Mitchell) writes:
|>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.

Huh??? So, like, what's your point?

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

Isn't that what I suggested? Again, I'm unclear as to what you're trying
to say. Are you agreeing? Disagreeing? And what is it that you wish C had?

|>
|>----	John D. Mitchell
|>	johnm at cory.Berkeley.EDU
             
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Chris Volpe
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