Re: What is the meaning of an expression?

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On 1/15/2022 2:21 PM, matt.ti...@gmail.com wrote:

> Of course, expressions in most languages can also include function calls and
> operators that produce side effects, like "printf("%d",++i);", which certainly
> has a meaning even though it produces no meaningful value.

Actually, it does.  It returns the number of characters written, or -1
on error.  Therefore, you can write a /meaningful/ hello world like
this,

   int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { return printf( "hello\n" ); }

Of course, people generally don't like to put the return before the
printf(), and there's no telling what the operating system will do;
think OpenVMS.

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