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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator
Summary: RTFM! RTFM! RTFM!
Message-ID: <1382@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 6 Aug 89 18:27:20 GMT
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Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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In article <3287@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> SMITHJ@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
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-Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm sure that all the documentation I've read warns
-that the *comma* operator ----does not----- guarantee evaluation in any order.
-Specifically, the Microsoft 5.0 manual mentions this.

You are mistaken, and if you're quoting Microsoft accurately, they're
mistaken too.  I quote from The Bible (edition 1, ss. 7.15, pg. 192):

	A pair of expressions separated by a comma is evaluated
	left-to-right and the value of the left expression is
	discarded.

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Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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