Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ltuxa!ttrdc!levy From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: expression, expression; Message-ID: <892@ttrdc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-May-86 01:12:11 EDT Article-I.D.: ttrdc.892 Posted: Thu May 22 01:12:11 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 12:46:51 EDT References: <118@danews.UUCP> <5470@alice.uucp> Organization: AT&T, Computer Systems Division, Skokie, IL Lines: 16 I think there may be at least one good reason NOT to do this, or at least to have expressions on different lines of the source code even if is legal--and that is for debugging. If you have code which is giving mysterious core dump problems, Murphy's law says sdb or adb will show the problem occurring on a line with multiple statements on it, and you'll just have to go back and edit the code into several lines each containing a single statement to pin down the problem. -- ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are | dan levy | yvel nad | my own and are not at all those of my em- | an engihacker @ | ployer or the administrator of any computer | at&t computer systems division | upon which I may hack. | skokie, illinois | -------------------------------- Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, vax135}!ttrdc!levy