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From: grogers@sushi.uucp (Geoffrey Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: down
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Date: 17 Dec 88 01:52:23 GMT
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In article <gables.352@umigw.miami.edu> slores%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes:
>		chcnt++ += (c == '\n');

The above statement is not legal in C. The reason why it is not legal is
because 'chcnt++' is consider to be a expression and you can not have
a expression of the form "expression asignment_operator expression".

Geoffrey C. Rogers
CONVEX