Re: What is wrong with this: *p++=*s++

From: Ben Pfaff (blp_at_cs.stanford.edu)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:27:05 -0700

strixnihildom@aol.com (Strix Nihildom) writes:

>>*p++=*s++
>
> when you do stuff like this use parentheses

I disagree. This statement is idiomatic. Every C programmer
should understand what it means.

> [...] if for some reason you want it to read *(p++)= (*s++) it
> creates a different result...

No, those two expressions are equivalent. 

-- 
"...what folly I commit, I dedicate to you."
--William Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_

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