[Pyrex] Pyrex and C++
Michael JasonSmith
mpj17 at student.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Nov 17 21:45:06 CET 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:36, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Michael JasonSmith <mpj17 at student.canterbury.ac.nz>:
>
> > C (well, gcc...) allows you to assign to a "non l-value", as so
> > foo - 3 = bar;
>
> Er... no, not even C is mad enough to allow *that*!
> (I tried it, just to be sure, and gcc complains.)
That's odd, because I can remember Introduction to C students doing it
by mistake and getting confused that it worked.
[Michael checks Info on GCC]
Oh, that's what I was thinking of.
(foo ? bar : wibble) = blarg;
In the foggy recesses of my brain it got mixed up with some Haskell or
some similar abomination. My apologies to one and all :(
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