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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: declaring variable
Message-ID: <961@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:13:49 GMT
References: <26707@tiger.oxy.edu>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <26707@tiger.oxy.edu> bagpiper@oxy.edu (Michael Paul Hunter) writes:
>A friend of mind had a program that wasn't working properly. (what a nice start)
>Within this program was a declaration that was similar to:

>double A,
>       B,
>       fooY,
>       fooX,
>       whelp; /* <--- note this */
>       WhatAmI,
>       AndMoreVariables;

   It looks like what we have here is:  

       double A....whelp;

       WhatAmI, AndMoreVariables;
       ^      ^       ^
       expr   comma   expression
	      operator

   Which appears to be a valid (although non-useful) statement.

Any other guesses?

John Hascall