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From: philw@pla... philw@pla...
Subject: Alef questions
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 11:25:33 -0400

>If it's not a bug, it's very surprising.  Even if you throw away
>a value, you expect the side-effects to happen.  I was kind of
You might, I don't. I think the comma operator was a mistake
in C, making it possible to duplicate its effect in ALEF was not
appealing. You are not the first person to suggest this.