Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!mimsy!rab
From: rab@mimsy.UUCP (Bob Bruce)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator
Message-ID: <10264@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 16:05:42 GMT
References: <11335@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: rab@mimsy.UUCP (Bob Bruce)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <11335@brl-adm.ARPA> mrd@sun.mcs.clarkson.EDU (Michael R. DeCorte) writes:
>I would like something to the effect
>
>int x;
>
>printf("%d\n", {int a;.....; a=x;});
>
>in others words, a block can return a value. Gee think of the #defines
>you could make

Some compilers, including the Gnu compiler from the Free Software
Foundation, offer this as a language extension.  It comes in
handy, especially when writing complicated macros.

>Michael DeCorte
>mrd@clutx.clarkson.edu
>mrd@clutx.bitnet

 Bob Bruce
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