28 Feb
2015
28 Feb
'15
2:59 a.m.
On 2015-02-27 23:16, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Without knowing for sure, I doubt there are several different languages
called "B". I'm sure there are implementation differences, though.
Johnny
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On 02/27/2015 02:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Well. You could just as well talk about the assignment operator in C...
I'm not aware of any ambiguity WRT function
calls, but you do have a
ambiguity WRT the same argument being used multiple times (incluiding if
you have increments on it) as the order of evaluation of any part of a
statement in C is undefined except for some special cases.
Yes, and that's just it--it's an operator with an implied LHS, that is,
it not only returns a value, but alters its argument. In languages
preceding it, I'm not aware of such an operator. Not that Unix
was ever written in B anyway, but I believe that B did
exist for the PDP-7.
But was the "B" used by Xerox in the 80s, the same language?