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From: randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: down
Message-ID: <132@halcdc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 16:45:12 GMT
References: <gables.352@umigw.miami.edu> <45370@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <2803@hound.UUCP>
Reply-To: randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison)
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In article <2803@hound.UUCP> rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX) writes:
|> You can't assign to a ++ expression.
|> 
|
|	Of course you can!  For example, a simple string copy function:
|
|	while (*to++ = *from++) ;

Except that you're not assigning to a ++ expression in this example.
The ++ expression is a pointer, and you're assigning to what the
pointer points to.  You couldn't assign to 'to++' if you wanted to.
The statement still stands (as well it should):

	You can't assign to a ++ expression.

		-randy
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