When is a statement an expression?

[Jeremy Roussak]

In article <4011 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1043 at itivax.iti.org>, scs at vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>> 	a = if ( a == 1 )
>> 		12 ;
>> 	else
>> 		14 ;
>
>I modified a C compiler to do that once. It's very BCPL/Algol-ish. Rather
>neat, too. Pity it's not 'C'.
>-- 
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It may be very Algol-ish, but it's certainly not BCPL.  BCPL has
a==0 -> 10, 12
It doesn't use if in that way, unles you include the valof/resultis
clause.

Jeremy Roussak                    Just a part-time hacker