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Subject: Re: Another silly question
Summary: Huh?  K&R says that `+' is a commutative operator...
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Date: 18 May 89 06:16:17 GMT
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Reply-To: orc@TSfR.UUCP (David L. Parsons)
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In article <2336@Portia.Stanford.EDU> mesmo@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Chris Johnson) writes:
>	When "+" denotes simple (ie int/float/etc) arithmetic, the
>	operation commutes; when it denotes pointer arithmetic,
>	commutation is not legal/meaningful.

  Umm, I don't follow.  K&R says that `+' is a commutative operator (K&R 1,
  page 185) and I can't find any comment to the contrary in the section
  that discusses `+' in detail.


   -david parsons
   -orc@pell.uucp