Re: Regarding assignment to struct

On Wed 5/7/2025 12:37 AM, David Brown wrote:

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That would get an immediate downcheck during review for exactly
that reason.

 Of course.  In fact, if someone presented such code for review (and assuming I noticed the commas!) I'd have to consider whether it was done maliciously, intentionally deceptively, due to incompetence, or smart- arse coding.  In all my C coding experience, I can't recall ever coming across a single situation when I thought the use of the comma operator was appropriate in the kind of code I work with.

Wow! That's catastrophically bad.
As it has been stated many times before, both C and C++ are programming languages that embrace both statement-level and expression-level programming. Expression-level programming (e.g. where `?:` is used for branching and `,` for sequencing) is a very valuable and massively important programming paradigm in these languages. The fact that elaborate expression-level programming is not in nay way abandoned or shunned today is pretty obvious in C++, since C++ took major steps lately to develop its expression-level capabilities. But it has always been and will always remain important in C as well.
The proclivity to stick exclusively to statement-level programming in C and, God forbid, impose it in others through so called "code reviews"... that would be a trait specific to "sweatshop" development outfits, which strive to replace quality with quantity. I'd agree that in a revolving door employment environment relying on a large number of low-competence developers such code might be seen as "too confusing". But I don't see why we should set our standards that low here, in `comp.lang.c`.
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Best regards,
Andrey