Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: comma operator Message-ID: <10733@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 14 Aug 89 19:47:33 GMT References: <63244@linus.UUCP> <2300@oakhill.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 In article <2300@oakhill.UUCP> stevenw@oakhill.UUCP (Steven Weintraub) writes: >while ((ch = getchar()), ch != EOF && ch != '\n') >Although I have never been quite satisfied with this, I have never found >a structure that does this which I find more satisfying. The usual idiom is while ( (ch = getchar()) != EOF && ch != '\n' )