Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!hound!rkl1
From: rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: down
Message-ID: <2803@hound.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 18:22:37 GMT
References: <gables.352@umigw.miami.edu> <45370@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <45370@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) writes:
> In article <gables.352@umigw.miami.edu> slores%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes:
> >PLEASE don't flame for posting too simple a question.  I think the following
> >SHOULD work, but will not even compile:
> >       while ( (c = getchar) != EOF)
> >               chcnt++ += (c == '\n');
> 
> Flame?  Us?  Never.
> 
> You can't assign to a ++ expression.
> 

	Of course you can!  For example, a simple string copy function:

copy_string (from, to)
char *from;
char *to;
{
	while (*to++ = *from++)
		;
}

--rkl