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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C blocks
Message-ID: <4351@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 87 18:50:37 GMT
References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1966@chinet.UUCP> <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> <1990@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller)
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In article <1990@chinet.UUCP> dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
>In article <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> jabir@quintus.UUCP (Jabir Hussain) writes:
>>In article <1966@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
>>> Pity Bliss is almost a dead language outside of the walls of DEC.

>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;

A is assigned its address.  The equiv. no op is:

		A = .A;

(For Bliss programmers, their errors eludom [get it, "module" backwards!!??]).

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