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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Comma and semicolon
Message-ID: <836@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 11:46:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 11:46:03 1986
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In article <118@danews.UUCP> danews!lvc writes:
>	printf("usage: foo bar\n") , return 1 ;
>seems reasonably "within C's style".  Comments ?

It would've been nice if the "," operator and the ";" separator had been
the same token, but they aren't.  They happen to be interchangeable in one
instance (both sides statement-expressions, and not the body of an if/else/
while/do/switch without braces), that's all.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint