From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri,  4 Aug 1995 02:34:48 -0400
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy@sour.sw.oz.au
Subject: Alef questions
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philw@plan9.att.com:
> Tuples are
> evaluated by generating the address of the lval and then evaluating
> each member directly into the destination. If there is no lval the
> expression is thrown away.

If it's not a bug, it's very surprising.  Even if you throw away
a value, you expect the side-effects to happen.  I was kind of
expecting it to work, since it would effectively recover the comma
operator: you get the general form where you can use or throw away
any of the expressions.

	J