I don't think I can learn C....

[Agafaster]

All for a good cause, too - top of the Group !

anyway, we are here to talk about one of me other favourite topics - C.

I had a go tidying up (ie: reformatting in an attempt to make more readable) the 1st program.
I came across summat I hadnt seen before there, and in Piru's program too - the use of a Comma. what does this signify ?
In particular for Piru's program in the 2nd for loop:

[color=000000]putchar(--l%80?i:10)[/color][color=00ccoo],[/color]o=D=l%80*.05-2[color=00ccoo],[/color]i=31

I presume it means many statements per line or something... :-?

[Agafaster]

Cheers Karlos, thats reet canny !

Casper, I am a Greater English Longhair meself.
now I know this I am well on the way to being leet !
(though super-leet is a long way off- I sit on the 2nd floor coding in PL/1 on our Mainframe - not as much fun as C !)

[Agafaster]

Karlos wrote:
Hey dude, I got my hair cut 2 years ago. My avatar image just old, that's all :-D

I havent - shame on you !

Actually, for C code, the comma operator is often useful in function-like macros that are supposed to 'return' a result and need to do several operations without ending the statement (ie with a semicolon).

Thats roughly what I guessed at - how useful is that ?! :-D
I'll have to mess about with it on me Handspring

A lot less useful in C++ where you just have an inline function.

I never really got to grips with C++.
it seems to overcomplicate a language based on simplicity and straightforward-ness (?!),
but then maybe I need to actually attempt to get something done in C++ rather than trying to pick up concepts from a book ! (from Bernard Babani)

[Agafaster]

So am I, even though its only 60 miles east of here...

Jus' get y'sel doon tha pub an' swally doon some o'that broon ale man.
Ye'll be aal reet after that !

(yes ! I learned everything I never needed to know about Novocastrian speak in Viz ! :-o
and having the p1ss taken by mates who were real geordies...  :-D )

[Agafaster]

ooh. wasnt he in Ghostbusters ?