Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Rearranging FP expressions Message-ID: <1988Sep29.044721.16154@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <4700017@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <12393@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 04:47:21 GMT In article <12393@oberon.USC.EDU> english@panarea.usc.edu (Joe English) writes: >Didn't I read somewhere that the unary + operator can be used to >suppress rearrangement of the enclosed expression? ... In some intermediate drafts of X3J11 C it could; not any more. (One of the perils of knowing about non-final drafts is that some of what you know eventually turns out to be wrong.) >Which reminds me: are there any good books out yet giving a complete >description of the dpANS? ... Not unless you count K&R2. How can there be? The dpANS is still changing! (There is a hope that it won't change much more, but that is a hope only.) Once there is a real, true ANSI C standard, you can expect a flood of books about it. Until then, the closest you can come is the latest X3J11 draft (which isn't fun reading, let me tell you...). -- The meek can have the Earth; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu