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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Please Please Help! - pointer notation
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 23:12:24 GMT
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- Message-ID: <825462744snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4gnlv9$1fh@news.mistral.co.uk> <4gtv05$45k@news.mistral.co.uk>
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- In article <4gtv05$45k@news.mistral.co.uk>
- mikebarnard@mistral.co.uk "Mike Barnard" writes:
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- >And I had loads of e-mail replies this time. The answer was (as
- >always!) rather obvious, but I didn't realise that the absence of a
- >whitespace doesn't matter to the compiler.
-
- It does matter sometimes since some tokens are prefixes to other tokens,
- for example / and /* so
-
- a = b / *p;
-
- means something entirely different to
-
- a = b /*p;
-
- and consider what
-
- x = y+++z;
-
- means. However in most cases there is no ambiguity and white-space makes
- no difference.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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