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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: new do-while syntax
Message-ID: <1724@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:25:34 GMT
References: <3049@arcturus> <864@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> <1716@buengc.BU.EDU> <8562@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <8562@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>In article <1716@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>> Pardon my two-cent kibbitz, but what's wrong with using the comma
>> operator to do that for which it is ideally suited?
>
>I can't use arbitrary statements with the comma operator:

As others have recently reminded me, statement is not expression, and
expression is not statement.  The comma operator separates expressions
only.  My bad.

>As I said before, it's way too late to get anything like this
>into C now.  It's fun to think about, though.

But wait!  We could form a comittee, couldn't we?  We could be the
abCDE, and meet and review and vote and review and meet and field input
from the input field and meet, review, vote...

				--Blair
				  "...and end up with Fortro-C.scalispgol,
				   the scientific/systems/ai/graphic
				   programming language!  All things
				   to all people.  Damn the entropy!
				   Full redesign ahead!"