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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comma operator: lvalue????
Message-ID: <11161@alice.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 22:49:44 GMT
References: <10839@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <10839@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe) writes:

> Can someone with a copy of the standard tell me if the comma
> operator produces an lvalue.

It does in C++ but not in C.  However, it's impossible to write a
strictly conforming C program that tests whether or not your
implementation returns an lvalue from the comma operator, so it
is a permissible extension to do so in C.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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