anything like C++ references?

[Erik Max Francis]

Moshe Zadka wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote:
> 
> >     stuff[i] = newComplexObject(i++, "name", "fred")
> 
> I'm not entirely sure that C code is not undefined. I think it
> is, but it could be that I'm mistaken and that "=" is a "sequence
> point".
> It's a variant on the old
> 
> a[i]=i++
> 
> thing. The problem here is that it's not certain what happens first --
> the a[i] (evalating to an lvalue) or i++.

Assignments are definitely not sequence points.  But function calls are.
So the code is well-defined, and is equivalent to

	<temporary> = newComplexObject(i++, "name", "fred");
	stuff[i] = <temporary>;

(Presuming, of course, newComplexObject is a function call.  If it were
implemented as a macro then that'd be something else.)

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