comma operator

[David T. Sandberg]

In article <3611 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
:In article <3287 at ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> SMITHJ at ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
:>Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm sure that all the documentation I've read warns
:>that the *comma* operator ----does not----- guarantee evaluation in any order.
:>Specifically, the Microsoft 5.0 manual mentions this.
:
:HAHAHAHEEHEEEHOHOHOHOHAHAHEEEEEEhaaaawheheheeeehoohohohohaha
:
:Whinny!  Laughed myself horse on that one.
:
:You're probably not mistaken, though; I don't doubt a bit that a
:Microsoft compiler for any language would implement it in such a way as
:to controvert every tenet of the language's original specifications.

Come on, give Microsoft a break here.  At least one article has
appeared which sets the record straight on this; MSC treats the
comma operator in the correct manner (left to right order of
evaluation), and the person above was wholly mistaken.  Please:
Microsoft gets quite enough grief for their real problems; it's
pointless to badrap them for bugs that *don't* exist.

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