Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C Trivia Question Message-ID: <18101@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 22 Sep 90 00:05:24 GMT References: <1990Sep17.214906.20076@odin.corp.sgi.com> <238@kyzyl.mi.org> Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 12 In article <238@kyzyl.mi.org> tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik) writes: >How about something like > if(0) /* anything */ ; > else static const unsigned long int volatile GARK; >Is this legal? No. (You could have tested this yourself before posting it!) Can we close this thread, please? It's already been noted that `do...while' nesting gives you an arbitrary number of consecutive keywords. Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint