Robert Jacques wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:53:45 -0500, Stewart Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:dsimcha wrote: <snip>Axe. Looks like the only things it's good for are making code undreadable andabusing for loop syntax to... Make code unreadable.<snip>Suppose you want the increment of a for loop to change two variables in parallel. I don't call that making code unreadable.Stewart.Yes the classic use case of the comma operator is multi-variable declarations/increments in a for loop.
This was argued before and as I and others said before, this is *not* a use case for the comma separator.
e.g.
for (int a = 0, b = 1; condition(); a++, b++) {...}
int a = 0, b = 1 // this is a declaration and not an expression
a++, b++ // isn't assigned to any variable and can be treated as a tuple
the only use case that will break is if the two increments are dependent
on the order (unless tuples are also evaluated from left to right):
e.g. a + 5, b + a //I doubt it very much that anyone ever uses this, it's too unreadable to be useful.
