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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:16:06 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Useful version of zippo, DJGPP package manager, now out
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Alain Magloire wrote:
> If a C compiler does not respect the precedence of the comma operator
> it is seriously broken.  The comma operator requires to completly
> evaluate the first expression before evaluating the second. If not,

Oops, I checked out C9X draft and you seem to be correct. I think
one of the books I have read confused me :)

> semantics like for() will not work e.g.: for (j = i + 2, k = j + 4; ;)
> 
> I think, Laurynas, is throwing a punch because she/he doesn't like

He :-)

> the sytle of the expression ;-) then again like him/her I don't see the benefice
> of ',' instead of ';' here, unless you have a condition(if,while,..) before
> and want the line to be consider as one expression.  I don't have the
> full context.

Right,
Laurynas Biveinis