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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator
Message-ID: <9744@alice.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 21:21:54 GMT
References: <2963@solo6.cs.vu.nl> <2135@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
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In article <2135@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>, skilbane@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (Steven Kilbane) writes:

> Personally, I think it is worse that {;}. If you have something of the form

> 	x = Expr1 , Expr2;

> then Expr2 will be assigned to x, rather than Expr1.

Nope.  = binds more tightly than , so

	x = Expr1 , Expr2;

means the same as

	(x = Expr1) , Expr2;
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com