Re: Software vendors not using Ada but C

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In article <20366@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard  
A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
> > Consider the generic C statement:  c=a+++b;  .  > > This
> ambiguous statement can mean four things which are all equally
> > admissible as ANSI C:
>
> This is outrageously false.  The ISO standard, section 6, subsection
> Semantics, paragraph 2, and example 2 make it crystal clear that
> there is precisely one way of dividing this into tokens:
>	{c} {=} {a} {++} {+} {b} {;} The grammar admits only one
> parse, and that parse admits only the interpretation > 3.  c =
> a + b ;  a = a + 1 ; (If c and a are aliases, the construct is
> explicitly undefined.)
>

The original claim startled me into action.  I tested this on 3
compilers, 2 for DOS and gcc on Unix.  All three got the same
results and they matched option 3, that is a + b; a = a + 1;

I personally hate  C and want all the ammunition against it I can
get but false claims such as this don't help.

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