Undoc'd Feature?

[Wes Loewer]

(07-03-2022 06:31 PM)parisse Wrote:  I think it's bad to increment a variable and simultaneously do an assignation, because it's confusing...

Agreed. I was just using that as a simple example to show the difference.

More realistic examples are commonly used expressions like a[i++] vs a[++i] which give different results.

In my younger days, I learned C after having learned BASIC, Pascal, COBOL, and Fortran. I was so impressed with C's terseness. The fact that if ((a=b++)==c) was a legal statement was mind bending for me. Assign b to a, increment b, compare a and c and branch accordingly, all in one statement! Gotta love it. Granted, this should not be done, but I thought it was so cool that it could be done. I've hopefully matured since then. :-)