Paul Gilmartin writes: | Æsthetics shouldn't so trump technical correctness.
and of course I agree. His question about the function of the colon in C followed by the assertion that he is familiar with it use only in | conditional expressions such as "b ? x : y" The chief function of the colon in C is to delimit statement labels, as in that immortal TCPL 2 construction if (a[i] == b[j]) goto found ; . . . found: . . . Mr Gilmartin is of course free to deprecate GOTOs ritualistically; he has indeed done so here frequently; he should know their syntax. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Avant d'imprimer cet e-mail, réfléchissons à l'impact sur l'environnement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
