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From: mib@ppe.bb-data.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.g++.help
Subject: Re: g++2.7.2 error on freebsd
Date: 11 Sep 1996 07:16:21 +0200
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
> : : if( fp = fopen( "x", "w" ), !fp )
> : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> : ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :-)
>
> Pardon ?
That seems like a comment on that rather baroque coding style. :-) It
is certainly not the most obvious way of saying
if( !(fp=fopen("x", "w")) )
.