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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.g++.help
Subject: Re: g++2.7.2 error on freebsd
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Date: 12 Sep 1996 10:05:06 +0100
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mib@ppe.bb-data.de wrote:
: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
: > : : if( fp = fopen( "x", "w" ), !fp )
: > : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >
: > : ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :-)
: >
: > Pardon ?
: That seems like a comment on that rather baroque coding style. :-) It
: is certainly not the most obvious way of saying
: if( !(fp=fopen("x", "w")) )
Hmm, I ended up doing this because I needed my code to compile on stupid
DOS compilers that warn about
if( fp = fopen( "x", "w" ) )
{
....
fclose( fp );
}
I like it :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....