Date: 22 Feb 2001 14:47:08 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <xzp3dd6n82r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Brian F. Feldman"'s message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:44:33 -0500" References: <200102220144.f1M1iYl12877@green.dyndns.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote: > > Most C programmers don't have a clue what that means and it doesn't > > match existing practice. > Pardon me, but most C programmers who have no clue what that means shouldn't > be programming in C. In an ideal world... In our less-than-ideal world, however, few C programmers fully understand the semantics of the , operator (if they're aware if its existence at all). It's very seldom used (the only common use for it is in the initialization and step parts of a for loop) and its semantics aren't immediately obvious unless you already understand sequence points (see section 5.1.2.3 and annex C of N869) - and in my experience, very few people have even *heard* of sequence points, and even fewer could tell you off the top of their head exactly where they occur. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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