On Friday, December 09, 2011 10:19:18 Don wrote: > Are there any cases where you're using comma outside of for loops? > I wonder how much would break if were made illegal everywhere else.
I'm sure that it would break code, but most people consider it bad practice to use the comma operator for much outside of for loops. Occasionally, it's useful to use one in an expression, but on the whole, it's just confusing and error-prone. And while it might break code to make the comma operator illegal outside of for loops, I would expect that fixing the broken code would generally be rather trivial. The resulting code may not be as compact, but it wouldn't be hard to write. And unless you're dealing with a programmer who uses it uncommonly often, not much code is going to break. - Jonathan M Davis