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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: parens on sizeof
Message-ID: <7106@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 14:09:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 21 14:09:58 1985
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> The empty string is an expression.  Therefore "sizeof (int)" is the
> empty expression cast to type "integer" and an expression.  Therefore
> "sizeof (int)" is of the form sizeof <expression> .

sizeof (int) ""     would be     sizeof <expression>

Whitespace is not equivalent to the empty string.  I'd sure hate for
a = *b;    to be interpreted as     a = ""*b;

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   Norman Diamond

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