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Re: finding the smallest number

 
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Nov 13th, 2006
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Originally Posted by paradox814 View Post
actually many compilers (including mine) will let you do it, even though it is considered bad form.
I've never heard of a compiler that will insert expressions in like that. Maybe I'm just ignorant. But I certainly wouldn't want that, because although a statement like this:
if (myvar == 4 || 5) { ...
might translate into:
if (myvar == 4 || myvar == 5) { ...

I certainly don't want
if (myvar == 4 || myothervar) {...
to turn into
if (myvar == 4 || myvar == myothervar) {...

Because who's to say that I didn't want to see if myvar is equal to 4 or myothervar is a nonzero value?
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