Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:09:02 -0400 From: Peter & <dufault@hda.com> To: Les Biffle <les@safety.net> Cc: Rob <europax@home.com>, "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the =+ operator Message-ID: <20010810110901.A3709@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <200108101446.HAA99867@safety.net>; from les@safety.net on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:46:16AM -0700 References: <3B73F0BC.548D40B3@home.com> <200108101446.HAA99867@safety.net>
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:46:16AM -0700, Les Biffle wrote: > ... There > has never been an operator =+, even checking back to the BCPL days. Nope, check "anachronisms" in K&R, at least the 1978 edition p 212: "Earlier versions of C used the form =op instead of op= for assignment operations. This leads to ambiguities, typified by x=-1 (and so on) That would have to be REALLY old pre-1978 code to be affected. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Fail-Safe systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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