20 Jan
2021
20 Jan
'21
4:56 p.m.
Nice archaeology. Blinded by my distaste for Basic , I never bothered to
try bs--and should have. Dave has highlighted features that deserve respect.
One telling example suggests this should be legalized in C:
printf("%s\n", {"true", "false"}[1]);
Doug
20 Jan
20 Jan
10:17 p.m.
New subject: bas(1) and bs(1) videos including features and use
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Nice archaeology. Blinded by my distaste for Basic , I
never bothered to try
bs--and should have. Dave has highlighted features that deserve respect.One
telling example suggests this should be legalized in C:
printf("%s\n", {"true", "false"}[1]);
That would evaluate to a constant being printed (it's a direct array
reference). Did you mean something like "...[i]" instead? That would
indeed be neat...
-- Dave
11:11 p.m.
New subject: bas(1) and bs(1) videos including features and use
On Do, 2021-01-21 at 09:17 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
printf("%s\n", {"true",
"false"}[1]);
That would evaluate to a constant being printed (it's a direct array
reference). Did you mean something like "...[i]" instead? That would
indeed be neat...
I think it doesn't matter if the index expression is
a constant expression or not. The point here, as I
understood, is the definition of an unnamed (and not
explicitly typed) array "on the fly".
Hellwig
21 Jan
21 Jan
7:30 a.m.
New subject: bas(1) and bs(1) videos including features and use
Then what about the following? :D
union huh { uint64_t l; double d; };
uint64_t a = ((union huh){ .d = foo }).l;
--Sudipto Mallick
28 Jan
28 Jan
9:15 p.m.
New subject: bas(1) and bs(1) videos including features and use
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
Ah, I see; thanks. Sometimes I'm too pedantic for my own good :-)
-- Dave
That would
evaluate to a constant being printed (it's a direct array
reference). Did you mean something like "...[i]" instead? That would
indeed be neat...
I think it doesn't matter if the index expression is a constant
expression or not. The point here, as I understood, is the definition of
an unnamed (and not explicitly typed) array "on the fly".
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