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From: volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
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Subject: Re: Another <sigh> error!
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Date: 5 Apr 91 14:22:37 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.205257.15205@mccc.edu>
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Reply-To: volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
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In article <1991Apr4.205257.15205@mccc.edu>, pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J.
Holsberg) writes:
|>Oops!  I did it again!  Must be affected by the news report that said
|>that men lose brain cells faster than women!  So of course the few
|>people who answered my posting(s) are bent on showing me up rather than
|>answering my question.  Serves me right for making such stupid mistakes
|>and deflecting them from my purpose!!
|>
|>Let me *not* give an example but couch the question in more general terms.
|>
|>Where/how does the standard explain that an expression such as
|>
|>	x[i++] *= y;
|>
|>has the "x[i++]" part evaluated only once, while an expression such as
|>
|>	x *= y;
|>
|>has the "x" part evaluated twice, as in
|>
|>	x = x * y;

Whoa! In "x *= y;", x is *not* evaluated twice. What made you think it was?

|>	
|>Thanks.  I hope I got it right this time.  ;-)
|>
|>Pete
|>-- 
|>Prof. Peter J. Holsberg      Mercer County Community College
|>Voice: 609-586-4800          Engineering Technology, Computers and Math
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