Re: Why multiplication not allowed?

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:16:00 GMT

Sean Kenwrick wrote:
>
... snip ...
>
> But I think the reason I didn't get the job was because one of the
> other questions the interviewer asked me was to tell him what was
> wrong with the following statement:
>
> i=+i;
>
> I said that there was nothing wrong with it, but the interviewer
> claimed that it was an ambiguous statement because it could mean
> adding i to itselt or setting i to +i. I got into an argument
> with him saying that he must be confused with i+=i; but he was
> adament he was right and got annoyed that I was disagreeing wih him.
>
> Afterwards I wondered whether this might have been some kind of
> syntax left over from a very early incarnation of C which was
> subsequently dropped. Perhaps the members of this group could
> enlighten me about this since I think that this guy was just a
> complete idiot.

You've got it. He had just been around from pre-standardization
days. Note that proper civilized use of blanks untangles
everything. 

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