From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 9 13:48: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E80151CB for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 13:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA54844; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:52:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:52:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os In-Reply-To: <199904091534.BAA01723@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >But what's wrong with having a specific -= operator? It would make code more > >readable, which is a plus. It would be obvious for people to look for such > >before resorting to substition rules. > > Creeping featurism. Obscure semantics (would it do nothing if the rvalue > is not in the lvalue? What about if the rvalue is added later?). You say "creeping features", I say "something that would have made sense since the beginning". The semantics would be "yes" and "yes", respectively > > Bruce > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message