comma operator: keep away?

Michael Paul Hunter bagpiper at oxy.edu
Tue May 2 09:04:16 AEST 1989


In article <28831 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jas at ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) writes:
>Granted, everyone should write code that is easily understandable by
>others.  Granted, also, that the way to do that depends on idioms in
>common use in a particular language:  constructs that are common usage
>in, e.g., LISP, may be obscure in C.  Granted, finally, that it is quite
>possible to write obscure C code by using the comma operator (and in
>countless other ways).

With a finite language (finite number of symbols), a finite number of states,
and a finite length program, I believe that you are only going to get
a countable (finite) number of ways to write obscure code... :)
maybe large...but finite!

				       mike



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