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Sebastien F4GRX wrote:
>> my own compiler choked on if.b and mail.b because of this invalid
>> expression in nxtarg:
>>
>> if(ap>ac) return(0*ap++);
>
> The return value is still a typo, but this expression should not pose
> a problem, the AST shows that the postinc has priority, uses a legit 
> lvalue, which result is multiplied by zero.
>
> This was probably not intended but syntactically correct.

I could well believe it's not a typo, but a "clever" way to write

  if(ap>ac) {
    ap++;
    return 0;
  }