Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

Hi,


> Even in C you have statement (expression?) separators, which are
> distinct from statement terminators, and allow to write down multiple
> statements as a syntactically single statement: stmt1, stmt2, stmt3;
> I sometimes used that option to bypass the otherwise required block
> delimiters "{...}".


That's the comma operator. It's a sequence point, takes two operands
and return the value of its RHS. The operands aren't statements, e.g.
a while-loop isn't allowed, they're expressions.




Ralph.

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