return list of values between parenthesis (10, 20, 30, 40)?

[亡魂溺海] 提交于 2019-11-28 00:19:38
Shafik Yaghmour

This is using the comma operator which will evaluate each expression from left to right but only return the last. If we look at the draft C++ standard section 5.18 Comma operator it says:

A pair of expressions separated by a comma is evaluated left-to-right; the left expression is a discarded value expression (Clause 5).83 Every value computation and side effect associated with the left expression is sequenced before every value computation and side effect associated with the right expression.

the linked article gives the most common use as:

allow multiple assignment statements without using a block statement, primarily in the initialization and the increment expressions of a for loop.

and this previous thread Uses of C comma operator has some really interesting examples of how people use the comma operator if you are really curious.

Enabling warning which is always a good idea may have helped you out here, in gcc using -Wall I see the following warning:

warning: left operand of comma operator has no effect [-Wunused-value]
  return (10, 20, 30, 40);
              ^

and then two more of those.

The comma operator is a 'sequence point' in C++, often used to initialise multiple variables in for loops.

So the code is evaluating a series of integers, one at a time, as single expressions. The last of these is the returned value, and the return statement as a whole is equivalent to simply return (40);

the expression (10, 20, 30, 40) is actually a series of 4 expressions separated by , You can use , to separate multiple expressions and the result is the evaluation of the last one.

Suvarna Pattayil

You have used the , i.e. comma operator

return () is valid.

and so is return (/*valid evaluation*/)

Comma operator returns the last value i.e 40

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