Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!spdcc!ima!mirror!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: This one bit me today Message-ID: <2063@frog.UUCP> Date: 6 Oct 89 02:43:00 GMT References: <2432@hub.UUCP> Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us Lines: 14 In article <2432@hub.UUCP>, dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes: > -Message-Text-Follows- < main() > { < int a=1,b=2,*p=&a,c; > c=b/*p; < } > First real flaw in the C grammer I have found. usespacestheymakeyourcodemuchmorereadableandhappentoavoidthisproblemasa pleasantsideeffectparentheseswouldalsobehandysincepunctuationcanbeyourfriend -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA 508-626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu