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From: hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C syntax (was Re: C sintax)
Message-ID: <1363@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 88 06:37:45 GMT
References: <501@m10ux.UUCP> <165600034@uiucdcsb>
Organization: NMT Hydrology program
Lines: 18
Summary: This isn't ambiguous

In article <165600034@uiucdcsb>, wsmith@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

> 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.
> > Are there any syntactic ambiguities K&R didn't resolve?

>     printf("%0d",a+++b);
> Is this (a++)+b or a+(++b)?

According to K&R it is the former.  That is it is (a++)+b, since the tokens
of the language are taken to be the largest possible token.  If you didn't
do something like this, then you have all kinds of problems with += and ->.
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