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Re: Expression Based Language

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From: Chris Torek
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 18:10
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[re type-matching in multipart expression values]
>>Context outside of the expression itself?  I think that's dangerous ground.

In article <2734@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>That's the way it currently works for ?: [in C].

No: in `a ? b : c', the type of the result is based only on the
types of `b' and `c', much as though b and c were to be added.
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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Expression Based Language
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Date: 14 Jan 89 18:10:04 GMT
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