Re: Error in the EVAL Statement?

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

you say that preceding a variable name with a sign is legal syntax - but
that begs the question:

what is produced by this syntax?  ie.  if you precede a variable with a neg
sign, will it flip the sign of the variable (pos to neg or visa versa) or
will it work like the opposite of %abs()? where it would always provide the
negative representation of the number, regardless of what it's original
sign is.

just curious...

rick
---original message---
 >> Yes, it is valid.  The first + is the "continuation indicator"

I'm sorry but you are incorrect.  There is no such thing as continuation
characters in C specs other than to continue a literal.

In the example given as Jim has pointed out - the compiler treats it as
indicating a positive literal.  It will apparently also work this way with
a
variable name.  If however you code 3 + signs in a row you'll see an error.
Note that because spaces are not significant in expressions the + and the
literal/variable can be separated by a space/

Jon Paris
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