Re: awka on Mac OS X 10.4.11 [Intel]

In article <funkla$p31$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Janis Papanagnou <Janis_Papanagnou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Robert Peirce wrote:
> > 
> > Frankly, it never occurred to me that these would be different.  I
still 
> > have trouble figuring out the logic behind the line that produced 28. 

> > 25 made sense, but not 28.
> 
> Why? If b was 13 and is pre-incremented before the rest of the
> expression is evaluated then you have 14 + 14 = 28.
> 
>    print b            # 13
>    print b += ++b
>    print b

I didn't say I couldn't figure it out.  I said I had trouble figuring it 
out.  It is interesting that some awks produce 25 while others produce 
28.  This is clearly some pretty tricky C coding that is not well 
understood by everybody.

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