maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (07/12/89)
shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
\...
\> I say: zork() is a constant of type struct foo, so you cannot take its
\> address and it isn't an lvalue.
\...
\zork() is not exactly a "constant", but it is an expression of type struct
\foo. However, it is *not* an lvalue so you cannot take its address.
What I intended to say: a function return value behaves as a constant;
once the value is known, you cannot suddenly decide to change it,
it isn't (a) variable, so it's meaningless to take its address.
\...
\ (i ? func1() : func2()).mids;
Shorter:
(i ? func1 : func2)().mids;
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