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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: User defined operators
Message-ID: <1000003@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 88 20:14:30 GMT
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Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab
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>	Expression	C parse				(C++)++ parse 
>
>	a+++++b   	"a" "++" "+" "++" "b"		"a" "+++++" "b"
>

BZZZZZZZZ! There has already been a prolonged discussion about this
example. C does *not* parse it like this. It parses it as

    a "++" "++" "+" b

which is syntactically incorrect. Therefore, your example will choke any
decent C compiler. Remember, "longest sequence of chars".

--scu