From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 13 19: 4:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACEA37B40B for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from snaresland.acl.lanl.gov (snaresland.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.113]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.11.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id f7E1cRO2710903 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:39:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 7555 invoked by uid 3499); 14 Aug 2001 01:38:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 01:38:27 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:38:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-X-Sender: To: Jan Knepper Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: the =+ operator In-Reply-To: <3B7480E7.6070406@digitaldaemon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message