Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!killer!jfh
From: jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C blocks
Message-ID: <2486@killer.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 18:40:27 GMT
References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1966@chinet.UUCP> <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> <1990@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
Lines: 27
Summary: The BLISS quiz ...

In article <1990@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
> 
> In C, the following is effectivly a no op, it does something in bliss --
> Anybody care to guess what?  (A is a scalar)
> 
> 		A = A;
> -- 
> 					Daniel A. Glasser

Yes - it has to do with those insipit dots.  If there weren't those willy
dots all over the place, the language might just be useful.  What it should
be (in C) is:

		A = &A;

or maybe its

		*A = A;

I can't remember, and that's why I don't use BLISS ...

- JOhn.
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