Re: Input-line reverser

Mike Wahler said:

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> "Richard Heathfield" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The reason it's not a valid C program is that it attempts to modify
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> evaluate, not modify. Modifying (i.e. assigning to it) would be OK.

I plead the rest of my original sentence as justification.

>> the
>> value of an object, when that object hasn't been given a value yet.

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