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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with ()?():() as ending test in for-loop
Message-ID: <344.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Date: 25 May 89 11:04:16 GMT
References: <17722@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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In article <17722@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>  (Any valid `logical' [true/false]
>e1?e2:e3 expression can always be transformed this way into (e1&&e2)||e3,
>provided e3 has no side effects.)
No Chris, this was a bit too fast.  If e1!=0 and e2==0, (e1&&e2)||e3 evaluates
e3 and returns it's truth value, whereas (e1?e2:e3) returns 0 and does not
evaluate e3.
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