cond. op. on ='s LHS

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <11073 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, johnm at cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
- In article <4155 at cernvax.cern.ch> burow at cernvax.cern.ch (burkhard burow) writes:
- >I'm wondering if anyone has any comments on using:
- >       *(a==b?&c:&d) = 1;
- >instead of:
- >       if (a==b) c=1;
- >       else      d=1;

My comment was going to be that it sucked bigtime.  However, I'll
buy "ugh" as a suitable comment too.

- P.S.	No wonder people complain about the denseness of C code!

C code has nothing to do with it, more like the density of some coders.