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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Clarifications on ANSI C nits
Message-ID: <6932@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 02:17:38 GMT
References: <3725@hoptoad.uucp> <458@m10ux.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <458@m10ux.UUCP> mnc@m10ux.UUCP (Michael Condict) writes:
>Another silly inconsistency (although it is probably too late to fix in the
>current standard) is the use of comma instead of semicolon in the new
>declaration syntax.

In C, semicolon has always been a statement terminator (it can be
considered as such even in the "for(;;)" kludge), while comma has
been used as a separator in lists (and, much less often, as a
sequencing operator).  If you're going to make "consistency"
arguments, you should also deal with this one.