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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Writing readable code
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Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 13:30:19 EDT
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More precisely you, I meant to the say the comma operator OR parentheses.
The example used parentheses but you could have as easily said:

	if(fd = open("foo", 0), fd < 0)