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From: larry@st-andy.uucp (Larry Martell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.125034.2825@st-andy.uucp>
Date: 13 Mar 91 12:50:34 GMT
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Reply-To: uunet!st-andy!larry (Larry Martell)
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In article <wolfram.667581530@cip-s05> wolfram@cip-s05.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
>Hello out there,
>I had a funny mistake the other day you might be interested in. It was an
>obvious syntax error which resulted in legal C code. Funny too how many times
>I read over it without seeing whats wrong.
>
>What I wanted to write was:
>
>	if (fct(a,b,c))
>
>but by mistake I wrote:
>
>	if (fct(a,b),c)
>
It's not a syntax error - it is leagl C code. If it were a syntax error
it wouldn't compile.
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Larry Martell
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