A question of style

[P E Smee]

In article <490 at nixba.UUCP> mike at nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes:
>I once taught a C seminar for Philips, and in their house "style manual" for
>C the use of the comma operator was absolutely forbidden.

I have a pathlogical dislike for the comma operator, because its most
common use seems to be to allow overloading of too many unrelated concepts
into one source line, in a sort of 'Gosh, amn't I clever' coding style.
Banning it altogether is probably excessive, because I think there are
occasions when it helps make things clearer or more efficient.  I do wish,
though, that someone could put a heuristic into the compiler so that it
would be rejected if it is being used because it is 'flash' rather than
because it wins something in the context. :-)

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