Odd trivia question involving && and ,

[Chris Torek]

In article <1990May2.181709.8988 at dasys1.uucp> aj-mberg at dasys1.uucp
(Micha Berger) writes:
>Do these peices of source code produce significantly different object
>code?

The answer to the question you asked is `yes', but the answer to the
question you probably meant to ask is `no':

>	E1 &&
>		E2,
>		E3;

(vs)

>	if (E1) {
>		E2;
>		E3;
>	}

Since `&&' binds tighter than `,', the first fragment is equivalent to

	if (E1) E2;
	E3;

If you change the first fragment to

	E1 && (E2, E3);

then the answer is `no, not unless you try to get the value of the
exression'---at least, not in any decent compiler.
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