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.

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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`.