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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Something new in C syntax
Keywords: ifdefs comments
Message-ID: <9545@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Jan 89 07:58:19 GMT
References: <4586@bunker.UUCP> <9522@smoke.BRL.MIL> <10024@diamond.csl.sony.JUNET>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10024@diamond.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) writes:
>In other cases, whichever construct occurs first (in a left-to-right
>scan) takes priority.

That's simply not true.