comma operator

[Roemer Lievaart]

tada at athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) writes:

>If you debate the "harder to read" bit, consider this -- the comma
>essentially is like putting two statements on one line.  would you
>rather read code like:
>  puts("it broke."); exit(2);

>than:
>  puts("it broke.");
>  exit(2);

I often write:

	if (something_goes(wrong) )
		fprintf(stderr, "%s: I give up!\n", argv[0] ) ,
		exit(2) ;

Of course it's no better than using { ; }, but it's not worse either.
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