13 May
2005
13 May
'05
11:28 a.m.
And thusly Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner spake:
It was thus said that the Great Bryan Pope once stated:
Now I am going to have to find my K & R book... I believe it says that
the order for a printf it right to left and since the "++" is after the
variable, the increment gets done after the value of retrieved.
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
And thusly Mike Loewen spake:
I was replying to this statement from John Hogerhuis:
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Bryan Pope wrote:
I checked after I sent the message and my system output "2 1 0"... I am
using Watcom C 10.6 under QNX 4.25. > So, to tie this in with the Zen Koan
threads, what is the result of
>
> int i = 0;
> printf("%d %d %d\n",i++,i++,i++);
>
IIRC it should output:
2 1 0
Not on my system:
0 1 2
I think the programming language is the most
succinct, clear, and unambiguous specification language imaginable.
Almost always each construct has one and only one interpretation.
And this is a perfect example of what I was trying to get across (and so
far, no one has stated the correct answer, yet both Bryan's and Mike's
compilers have produced a correct answer. To add fuel to the conversation,
the IRIX 4.0.5 C compiler would produce
0 0 0
which is also a correct answer.