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From: palmer@hsi.UUCP (Mike Palmer)
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Subject: Re: Possible C Anomaly
Message-ID: <682@hsi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 11:51:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: hsi.682
Posted: Thu Sep 17 11:51:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 18:11:11 EDT
References: <9270@brl-adm.ARPA> <5112@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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In article <5112@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
> In article <9270@brl-adm.ARPA> mrd@sun.mcs.clarkson.EDU (Michael R. DeCorte) writes:
> <   /* Example #1 */            k = (k > 1) ? k-- : 1;
> <
> <   My intent was to decrement k with each pass until it reached 1 and then to
> <   keep it at one.  There are a variety of ways to accomplish this but I just
> <   happened to try this one first.
> 
> <Try 
> <	k = (k > 1) ? --k : 1;
> 
> No! Consider that you're doing (one way) "k = --k". You still don't know

... stuff deleted ...

> <or
> <	k = (k > 1) ? (k - 1) : 1;
> 
> Much better - it's right.

why not just use

	(k > 1) ? k-- : (k = 1);

or better yet

	(k > 1) ? k-- :;


just my two cents.


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