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Date: | Sun, 3 May 1998 17:24:25 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Programming Prob. |
In-Reply-To: | <3547A9F0.2C60@cs.com> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.980503172408.19706B-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, John M. Aldrich wrote: > I could not believe what Nate posted, because it looked so incredibly > syntactically obscure. So I tried it with gpp and it worked. I don't > see how it makes the operation any clearer, though. :-) Their advantage is not clarity, it's the avoidance of side effects. Unlike the standard operators, >? and ?: evaluate their operands only once, and therefore are unafflicted by any side-effects.
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