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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compound Assignments
Message-ID: <15764@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Apr 91 21:17:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.205257.15205@mccc.edu> <1991Apr6.195901.25255@dvorak.amd.com> <1991Apr7.185259.12709@druid.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Apr7.185259.12709@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>In article <1991Apr6.195901.25255@dvorak.amd.com> Tim Olson writes:
>>| 	x *= y;
>>| 	x = x * y;
>>In the second example, "x" is not evaluated twice ...
>Huh?  Am I missing something ...

Yes, what you missed was that there were two examples given of compound
assignment, one involving a relatively complex l.h.s. and the other as
shown in the citation above.  The "second example" was the entire
citation, not the second line of the citation.