For those who want to see a serious use of this operator, see http://code.google.com/p/cii/source/browse/trunk/include/except.h http://code.google.com/p/cii/sou

For those who want to see a serious use of this operator, see http://code.google.com/p/cii/source/browse/trunk/include/except.h http://code.google.com/p/cii/source/browse/trunk/include/exc... line 35. This from an exception (try, catch, except macros) library for the C language. It is from a book called "C interfaces and implementations", probably one of the best books on good C programming I have ever (and still) read. It's special in the fact that it's written by Hanson (who also co-wrote the LCC compiler, you might have seen ID Software use this compiler) and the book uses Knuth's Literary Programming technique for the source code in the book ;)