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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What's wrong with printf( ) , return ?
Message-ID: <847@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 18:41:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: bentley.847
Posted: Thu May 22 18:41:33 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 13:07:34 EDT
References: <123@danews.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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In article <123@danews.UUCP> danews!lvc writes:
>I knew that return wasn't an expression.  The fact that you can
>do `control flow' with , seperating expressions makes me wonder
>why this wasn't extended to include 'some' statements such as return.

It makes about as much sense as "printf() + return".  Comma in this context
is an *operator*.  A more serious argument would be to allow the statement
"return ((void)printf())", which would make sense if "void" were a real
datatype.

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