Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!gatech!ukma!rutgers!ames!elroy!mahendo!jplgodo!wlbr!scgvaxd!trwrb!aero!venera.isi.edu!lmiller 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) Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 20 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!!??]). Larry Miller lmiller@venera.isi.edu (no uucp) USC/ISI 213-822-1511 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA. 90292