Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question About &&
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:06:44 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <86mtyum1uz.fsf@linuxsc.com>
References: <c21717e3-823c-48ff-92f8-9818f26c60aan@googlegroups.com> <rpsgom$1mrs$3@gioia.aioe.org> <rpskqg$3d2g5$1@news.xmission.com> <rpt08s$jdg$1@gioia.aioe.org> <rpu0mp$uat$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd193eaa76d2cf756f76f8149091c42d"; logging-data="11105"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lCuGShIWiPeO5/q7gDBnLT3orr2L5WFQ="
User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:B8f7M0KclHw1dpvDXUZDUZ8f/Y8= sha1:OQCxoAPbHMQjNuNwClt1nmjRU8Q=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:156908

James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> On 11/28/20 3:03 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>
>> On 11/27/2020 8:48 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>
>>> In article <rpsgom$1mrs$3@gioia.aioe.org>,
>>> Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> a && b = x
>>>
>>> This is a syntax error;  this can be corrected by changing it to:
>>
>> It was meant to be a pseudo-code.  Sorry for not explicitly pointing that
>> out.
>
> Writing something like that as  psuedo-code is very weird. [...]

It doesn't strike me as especially weird.  Nor all that
hard to understand either.