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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: short circuit evaluation
Message-ID: <643@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 03:38:30 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.643
Posted: Tue Feb 10 03:38:30 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 04:05:09 EST
References: <425@bobkat.UUCP> <102600001@datacube> <34@umich.UUCP> <637@rtech.UUCP>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <637@rtech.UUCP>, jas@rtech.UUCP (Jim Shankland) writes:
> Now, one might say, "It is poor style for an expression with side
> effects to itself be an operand of an expression other than a "comma"
> expression."  (Though this prohibits the ever-popular
> "if ((c = getchar()) != EOF)".)

It also prohibits *ptr++ (which I don't think is excessive).

					der Mouse

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