Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!alberta!auvax!rwa From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C blocks Summary: i think i know... Message-ID: <455@auvax.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 22:44:16 GMT References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1966@chinet.UUCP> <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> <1990@chinet.UUCP> Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada Lines: 20 In article <1990@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes: > In C, the following is effectivly a no op, it does something in bliss -- > Anybody care to guess what? (A is a scalar) > A = A; Am I correct in thinking it does a = & a; (the answer is written in C-style, of course, since this is the C group). It's been a long while since I looked at a Bliss reference, & I have never needed to code in it or had the opportunity, either. In the same vein, does anybody want to explain why there is an 'auto' keyword in C? I have an answer (which doesn't really please me, I have a higher opinion of DMR than that) but I'd like other opinions... -- Ross Alexander @ Athabasca University alberta!auvax!rwa