Comma operator in condition of loop in C

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The comma operator will always yield the last value in the comma separated list.

Basically it’s a binary operator that evaluates the left hand value but discards it, then evaluates the right hand value and returns it.

If you chain multiple of these they will eventually yield the last value in the chain.

As per anatolyg’s comment, this is useful if you want to evaluate the left hand value before the right hand value (if the left hand evaluation has a desirable side effect).

For example i < (x++, x/2) would be a sane way to use that operator because you’re affecting the right hand value with the repercussions of the left hand value evaluation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator

Sidenote: did you ever hear of this curious operator?

int x = 100;
while(x --> 0) {
    // do stuff with x
}

It’s just another way of writing x-- > 0.

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