Hi

on Mon, 5 May 2025 14:02:47 +0000 you ("Herring, Davis via Liaison"
<liaison_at_[hidden]>) wrote:

> > The author would appreciate WG21 feedback. I encourage you to take
> > a moment to read the paper and share your thoughts.
>
> void does not disqualify C++ expressions from being constants and
> seems patently superior to using + to join an assertion to an
> integer.

> Can't C make "void(1), 1" be a constant expression too?

Not so easily, as can't C++, I think, because "constant expression"
is "conditional expression" with additional semantics. And the later
excludes the comma operator by definition. What the historical reason
for this would be, I don't know, and if would be easy to change I
don't know either.

Jₑₙₛ

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