Stupid users

[Peter Holzer]

KPURCELL at LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:

>Of course you could write:

>         foo = ++a+++++b++;

>and confuse a lot of people (and compilers!)
			      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
They surely are confused by this piece of non-C code:
The above code is equivalent to:
foo = ((++a)++)++ + b++;

(++ a) is not an l-value; so (++ a)++ is not valid C.
Any compiler accepting this code is broken.

Regards, Peter
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