Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: operator precedence question
Message-ID: <1988Jul22.170219.5837@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <347@gt-eedsp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 17:02:19 GMT

In article <347@gt-eedsp.UUCP> baud@gt-eedsp.UUCP (Kurt Baudendistel) writes:
>[in C] the comma operator was a valuable part of the for statement
>syntax, but ... conversion to `proper' c++ variable declaration
>technique (at the point of usage) invalidates the format of the for
>statement.  why is this?

What can one say?  Commas in the for statement are a useful trick in C
that simply doesn't generalize to "proper C++".
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