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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator:  keep away?
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Date: 22 Apr 89 21:23:48 GMT
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In article <19913@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
: Is there a circumstance in which the comma operator is required, where
: the compound statement cannot be broken into multiple statements?

Certainly, though I'd not say "required", just "much better
programming": in macros and in the initialization and update parts of
for statements. And I'm sure I could think of a few more if I spent
the time.

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