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Re:Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011) by 1718627440 on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:32AM (#48147819)
> Except you don't!

Except you can do, because "The answer is that this isn't a valid C program." is a sentence you can know.

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Re:Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011) by godelski on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:16PM (#48155890)
Syntactically, it is valid. Though yes, semantically it is invalid. Calling it "valid" is going to just continue the same problem because there's multiple ways to interpret valid here
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