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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with ()?():() as ending test in for-loop
Message-ID: <732@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 21:48:08 GMT
References: <1200@liszt.kulesat.uucp> <17722@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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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.

Eh?  If e1 and e3 are true while e2 is false, then e1?e2:e3 is
false but (e1&&e2)||e3 is true.  Seems to me you can't avoid
having to do (e1&&e2)||(!e1&&e3).
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