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 Comma operator In the C and C++ programming languages, the comma operator (represented by the token codice_1) is a binary operator that evaluates its first operand and discards the result, and then evaluates the second operand and returns this value (and type). The use of the comma token as an is distinct from its use in function calls and definitions, variable declarations, enum declarations, and similar constructs, where it acts as a . The comma operator separates "expressions" (which have value) in a way analogous to how the semicolon terminates "statements," and sequences of expressions are enclosed in parentheses analogously