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From: vlcek@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jim Vlcek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Style guide indeed
Message-ID: <2880@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 89 00:58:36 GMT
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Reply-To: vlcek@mit-caf.UUCP (Jim Vlcek)
Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
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Someone recently posted a reply to a posting about pointer
comparisons:

>>       if (sptr= (struct xyzzy *)malloc(...), !sptr)
>>               fatal("cannot malloc");

>This was from a *style* guide?  Yeah I suppose it works, though I am 
>too lazy to check if the comma operator has a guaranteed order of
>evaluation.  I seldom use it.

Why is it that people are so frequently too lazy to find out the
correct answer, but have more than sufficient energy to post wholly
unenlightening replies?

Jim Vlcek  (vlcek@caf.mit.edu  uunet!mit-caf!vlcek)