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From: wsmith@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C sintax
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Date: 5 Feb 88 15:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!wsmith    Feb  5 09:18:00 1988


In <548@gtx.com>, al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) writes:
> I'll stick my neck out and say I don't think there ARE any syntactic
> ambiguities in C. (there are, of course, the semantic ones resulting
> from undefined order of evaluation).  The potential ambiguities such
> as the dangling else and those involving the comma operator are solved
> by fiat.
> 
> Are there any syntactic ambiguities K&R didn't resolve?
> 
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main()
{
    int a,b;
 
    a = 0; b = 0;

    printf("%0d",a+++b);
}

Is this (a++)+b or a+(++b)?

Bill Smith
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wsmith@a.cs.uiuc.edu