On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:01:51PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > In any case, I prefer the style of C code that more directly reflects > the underlying assembly, even if an optimizing compiler would produce > the same assembler for both. It is just natural to read "use the result > of this save operation for the test", as opposed to "save the result of > the operation, discard it, read it back into memory and then test".
I agree with this. A conditional test should scan like a boolean logic expression. The "stop, discard result" semantics of the comma operator prevents that. joe
