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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of style
Message-ID: <11712@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Nov 89 23:35:03 GMT
References: <547@mars.Morgan.COM> <1989Nov30.001947.14883@aqdata.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Nov30.001947.14883@aqdata.uucp> sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
>From article <547@mars.Morgan.COM>, by amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt):
>> ...I can't think of what I would call a 'proper' use of the comma operator...

Mostly it finds use within fancy macros.

>while (c = getchar(), c != EOF)

The standard C idiom for this is
	while ( (c = getchar()) != EOF )
and experienced C programmers are likely to read the standard idiom
with greater facility than your proposed use of a comma operator for this.