comma , <character> "," {ASCII} character 44. Common names: {ITU-T}: comma. Rare: {ITU-T}: cedilla; {INTERCAL}: tail. In the {C} programming language, "," is an operator which evaluates its first argument (which presumably has {side-effects}) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in "for" statements and {macros}. (1995-03-10)