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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: C wish list
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:12:01 -0700
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 23/03/2019 20:41, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
>> Note that said he was confused by the syntax you used,
>> "<some expression involving x, such as x>>8>".
>
> I parsed that as:
>
> 	<some expression involving x, such as x>  >8>
>
> which I could not interpret.
>
> A bit of spacing or quotation marks would have helped.

So any conclusions Bart drew based on your response to that (which
constitute a large proportion of this thread) are unfounded.

I parsed it (and I'm reasonably sure Bart meant it -- Bart, please
correct me if I'm mistaken) as:

    <
        some expression involving x,
        such as
        x>>8
    >

Bart moved the goalposts.  You had been discussing code using left
shift, which may have undefined behavior.  Bart presented (unclearly)
an example involving right shift, which never has undefined behavior
(unless the behavior was already defined for other reasons).

Again, if Bart wants to continue discussing this, he needs to present
clear examples without pseudocode and with any assumptions clearly
stated.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */