bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (09/15/89)
In article <3242@solo12.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: >gcc (ANSI or what?) does accept > > 0 ? 0 : i = 0 > >but it does NOT accept > > 0 && i = 0 Why should it? It's an expression. Paraphrasing from K&RI (the Talmud, cats; so call me a fundamentalist) the order of evaluation is undefined except by the explicit precedence and grouping of the operators. (A.7, p.185) Any compiler that doesn't think that `0 && i' is trying to be an lvalue for `result = 0' isn't applying the word of god. >In fact, I've never used a C compiler that accepted the latter construct. >Of course I fully agree it should be accepted. Eh? And cause rampantly creeping unmaintainability? Hordes of confused students wondering what was going to happen when they had followed the letter of the book? --Blair "Quote me some K&RII."