Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.146.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:01:16 -0600 Message-ID: <4ED7A4CC.4443@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:01:16 -0500 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: sequence points and printf() References: <4ed7195d$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.216.66 X-Trace: sv3-K2Y60MbnTpGEhGdhEy73XfddjpHY87OO8GB4Ygg4jYJ6uSrA7C2OaDMBTKJBH6Jdjs8MshqAKDTjGy7!G9VgZVWa9UiXgus5Ghg+NZ+oFOfN0k1dNjeqCnmvEp/ntcwGZ5s7IlfwpdVoNngy9mogXrDUIWiB!yIWhMfr/VQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1757 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:14168 Keith Thompson wrote: > > Martin Ambuhl writes: > > On 12/1/2011 1:06 AM, arnuld wrote: > >> But as per C-FAQs here: http://c-faq.com/expr/seqpoints.html > >> > >> comma operator defined a sequence point and I see comma is present > >> between printf() arguments > >> but I am not sure if this "comma" is called as > >> "comma operator" ? > > > > Commas between arguments are punctuation and not comma operators. > > Right. > > A terminology quibble: comma *operators* are also punctuation. I think that Martin Ambuhl meant to say: "Commas between arguments are punctuators and not comma operators." -- pete