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From: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When is a statement an expression?
Message-ID: <959@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Apr 89 08:25:24 GMT
References: <1043@itivax.iti.org> <4011@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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In article <4011@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1043@itivax.iti.org>, scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>> 	a = if ( a == 1 )
>> 		12 ;
>> 	else
>> 		14 ;
>
>I modified a C compiler to do that once. It's very BCPL/Algol-ish. Rather
>neat, too. Pity it's not 'C'.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
>
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It may be very Algol-ish, but it's certainly not BCPL.  BCPL has
a==0 -> 10, 12
It doesn't use if in that way, unles you include the valof/resultis
clause.

Jeremy Roussak                    Just a part-time hacker