13 May
2005
13 May
'05
11:24 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Bryan Pope once stated:
And thusly Mike Loewen spake:
I was replying to this statement from John Hogerhuis:
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Bryan Pope wrote:
Not on my system:
0 1 2
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 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.
-spc (On topic, since this applies to C89 ... )