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>>>And why is the ability to do that a Good Thing (tm)? :)
>>
>>Lazy programming.
> 
> 
> And possibly unclear intent ?? There's a tradeoff :)
> 
> OTOH, I'm all for lazy programming :)
> 
> But something tells me, that C provides this, so one can use it if one
> REALLY needs to; perhaps not so much so as to be able to write concise 
> code.

I don't know that it was intended to be used that way.  I've used it in 
a real life situation when we had digits stored as numeric data and had 
to do math on them.  Typically it's nice for single digits, beyond that 
you'll be doing a digit at a time, and I'm not sure where the gain is there.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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