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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: cond. op. on ='s LHS
Message-ID: <15227@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 16 Feb 91 20:33:42 GMT
References: <11073@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <15184@smoke.brl.mil> <326@smds.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <326@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>> - >       *(a==b?&c:&d) = 1;
>Seriously, there is a germ of a good idea here.

There are good ways of exploiting the ?: operator and bad ways.
The example being discussed is clearly among the latter.