Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!datanguay
From: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay)
Subject: Re: &&**
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.021321.18381@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1990Sep6.091605.15732@irisa.fr>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 90 02:13:21 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.091605.15732@irisa.fr> ridoux@irisa.fr (Olivier Ridoux) writes:
|I'd like to know about the portability of expressions of the form 
|`` &^n*^n x '' (`` &*x '', `` &&**x '', `` &&&***x '', ...).
|
|An expression of the form `` &&x '' seems to make no sense, since `` & '' 
|requires a lvalue though it yields no lvalue.  So `` &&**x '' seems to be 
|ruled out.

Also note that the "&&" sequences in the above expressions will lex as
"logical and" operators.
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David Tanguay            Software Development Group, University of Waterloo