Scale (insect anatomy) and enable the insect to escape. (Forsyth 1992:12) Thomas Eisner tested spiderwebs' effectiveness by dropping various insects onto the webs. Moths were consistently able to escape, and all left impact spots where scales had stuck to the web. Eisner found these spots to be common. (Eisner 2003:218-220) Scales also help increase the lift to drag ratio in gliding flight. Successive close-ups of the scales of a Peacock wing Scale (insect anatomy) The presence of scales on the wings of Lepidoptera, comprising moths and butterflies, characterises this order of insects. The name is derived from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (scale) and πτερόν
Comma operator to how sequences of statements are enclosed in braces: codice_2 is a sequence of expressions, separated by commas, which evaluates to the last expression codice_3 while codice_4 is a sequence of statements, and does not evaluate to any value. A comma can only occur between two expressions – commas "separate" expressions – unlike the semicolon, which occurs at the end of a (non-block) statement – semicolons "terminate" statements. The comma operator has the lowest precedence of any C operator, and acts as a sequence point. In a combination of commas and semicolons, semicolons have lower precedence than commas, as semicolons