From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 13 20:47: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEE3937B408 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alson@mediadesign.nl) Received: (qmail 29000 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Aug 2001 03:47:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:47:03 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: the =+ operator Message-ID: <20010814054703.A28712@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Hackers References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i 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 Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:38:27PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > 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. Like this? :) http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cman.ps Look at page 8 of that file... it indeed shows the lvalue =op expression syntax Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message