From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 22 5:47:25 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2538B37B6AD; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:47:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA44391; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:47:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Warner Losh , Peter Pentchev , Ben Smithurst , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 References: <200102220144.f1M1iYl12877@green.dyndns.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Feb 2001 14:47:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Brian F. Feldman"'s message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:44:33 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > Warner Losh 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