Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!nair
From: nair@quintus
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Comma Operator
Keywords: order of evaluation, comma operator, function call
Message-ID: <922@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 02:37:47 GMT
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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What should this print?

	int x, y;
	printf("%d %d\n", (x = 1, y = 2), x, y);

Shouldn't it be equivalent to:

	int a, x, y;
	a = (x = 1, y = 2);
	printf("%d %d %d\n", a, x, y);

Is there any justification in the first one printing
	2 1 0

Is there God? Why am I here? :-) :-)

Anil Nair

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