Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: comma operator Message-ID: <14518@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 5 Aug 89 00:34:41 GMT References: <3287@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> <10453@claris.com> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 10 Hope I'm not repeating, but Harbison & Steele II (p.187) say: "The comma operator guarantees that its operands will be evaluated in left-to-right order, but other uses of the comma character do not make this guarantee. For example, the argument expressions in a function invocation need not be evaluated in left-to-right order." -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET