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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:38:27 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To:        Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: the =+ operator
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108131936330.7544-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <3B7480E7.6070406@digitaldaemon.com>

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jan Knepper wrote:

> I just checked on this "=+" and "=-" with the guy that wrote the first
> native C++ compiler and he does not recall it at first being that way...

of course not. It had changed long before C++. You have to go back to 1976
to find this.

> I have been programming C++ myself for over 10 years and *never* heard
> this before. I do not know where it comes from.

Guess I'll repeat it. Go find the original V6 Unix "Documents for use with
the Unix time sharing system" and look in there. These were made available
ca. 1976.

ron


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