Comma

COMputable MAthematics.

An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen.

(30 Nov 1994)

comma

<character> "," ASCII character 44. Common names: ITU-T: comma. Rare: ITU-T: cedilla; INTERCAL: tail.

In the C programming language, "," is an operator which evaluates its first argument (which presumably has side-effects) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in "for" statements and macros.

(10 Mar 1995)