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On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:23:34AM +1100, David Burgess wrote:

> > What is wrong with a comma operator in an index? (Maybe someone may
> > think it is a matrix access, like a[i,j]?
> Yes. MS doco
> "An array index legally may be the value of the last expression in a
> series of expressions separated by the comma operator. However, the
> intent may have been to use the expressions to specify multiple
> indexes into a multidimensional array."

Could you wrap this in something like: ( (1) ? (..., ..., ...) : 0 )
It's ugly.  Perhaps a macro:

#define _E(expr)  (1?(expr):0)

Best,

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