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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator
Message-ID: <14196@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 4 Aug 89 16:22:38 GMT
References: <1989Jul28.174033.12734@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2550097@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <2550097@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>Another convenient use of the comma operator is in for loops ...

Which is only necessary because of a flaw in the language, in that it requires
the pieces of a "for" statement to be expressions rather than statements, even
though the values of the first and third pieces are ignored.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint