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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator:  keep away?
Message-ID: <19946@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 89 21:16:20 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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[ me ]
>Is there a circumstance in which the comma operator is required, where
>the compound statement cannot be broken into multiple statements?

wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema) <268@wzv.UUCP> :
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-"... in macros where a multistep computation has to be a single expression."
-					K&R second edition, page 63.

I see that now, and thank you everybody.  I find that when I originally
posed the question I was mentally excluding macros from consideration, a
curious lapse I admit.

(BTW:  I didn't mean to sound anti-comma.)