Waffling (was Re: single-line terinary operators considered harmful)

Stephen Horne intentionally at blank.co.uk
Wed Mar 5 11:44:09 EST 2003


On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:11:40 +0000, Stephen Horne
<intentionally at blank.co.uk> wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:34:21 +0100, "Anders J. Munch"
><andersjm at dancontrol.dk> wrote:
>
>>You are wrong on this point.
>
>OK - I'm surprised, but can't be bothered looking up the standard,
>especially as I'm probably just getting confused with the comma
>operator (which is *effectively* a separator, being an infix
>operator).

Oops - I think I just figured it out... There was definitely a
language I used where you'd get a null statement by having a semicolon
after the last statement of a block (not that anyone cared), and now -
I think it was Pascal.

I can't believe I confused Pascal and C !!!

Or am I still wrong?

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