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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Stupid users
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Date: 8 Aug 90 11:34:36 GMT
References: <2674@aipna.ed.ac.uk> <14452@lambda.UUCP>, <kai4=Fi00Ug7E7alJa@andrew.cmu.edu> <7219@star.cs.vu.nl> <90218.175404KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
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KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:

>Of course you could write:

>         foo = ++a+++++b++;

>and confuse a lot of people (and compilers!)
			      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
They surely are confused by this piece of non-C code:
The above code is equivalent to:
foo = ((++a)++)++ + b++;

(++ a) is not an l-value; so (++ a)++ is not valid C.
Any compiler accepting this code is broken.

Regards, Peter
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