On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 00:44, John Carter <john.carter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Consider for a moment this program excerpt...
> a(&(b){c})
>
> Is this valid C++?
>
> Is this valid C?
>
> What would you need to do to get this to compile?
>
Use the preprocessor. Otherwise you can't get braces inside parens.
#define c return 0;
#define b d)
#define a(T) int d; if (T
int main() {
a(&(b){c})
}
> What does it do?
>
Whatever you want.
> Could it be tweaked into something useful? (apart from using it to
> hurt people's brains with.)
>
No.
