Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttrdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!ttrdc!levy From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C style Message-ID: <545@ttrdc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 19:07:25 EST Article-I.D.: ttrdc.545 Posted: Thu Oct 31 19:07:25 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 05:32:05 EST References: <1556@brl-tgr> <2600023@ccvaxa> <259@3comvax.UUCP> <538@ttrdc.UUCP> <2081@reed.UUCP> Organization: AT&T, Computer Systems Division, Skokie, IL Lines: 33 In article <2081@reed.UUCP>, alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis) (as about a jillion others) writes: >In article <538@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >>[...] The && operator >>doesn't GUARANTEE the chronological order of evaluation is going to be left >>to right, if you have a screwball compiler (though it most probably will be). >Dear Dan: > You have just inserted your foot in your mouth, in full view of the users >at over 2000 sites around the world. Observe: ** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH MY STUPIDITY ** I have already recanted this article, which I wrote in a spasm of C paranoia. I have also issued three cancel messages for it so it will come to a premature demise at over 2000 sites around the world. Why, why, WHY will people roundly flame a guy/gal who has made a collossal gaffe like mine, yet not issue a peep when a plea goes out far and wide for some kind of information??? Someone wrote a piece of doggerel about this some time ago: "I put a question to the net; I haven't found the answer yet..." (describes being flamed, etc.). I recently posted a question asking about an undocumented flag in VMS C "open" statements for reading the entire rec- ords of Fortran-format files, and save for one unnamed kindhearted soul from DEC who mailed me an answer, you could have heard a pin drop (and the sub- ject had been roundly discussed just a couple of months ago, but it was ir- relevant to me at that time so I let it go...karmic retribution I guess). -- ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are | dan levy | yvel nad | my own and are not at all those of my em- | an engihacker @ | ployer or the administrator of any computer | at&t computer systems division | upon which I may hack. | skokie, illinois | -------------------------------- Path: ..!ihnp4!ttrdc!levy