Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:40:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> To: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> Cc: <les@safety.net>, Rob <europax@home.com>, "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the =+ operator Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108101339120.16474-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <15220.9386.441669.962830@raw.grenland.fast.no>
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Raymond Wiker wrote: > This is actually wrong - the += and -= operators were > originally written as =+ and =-. This is obviously ambiguous, given > the fact that whitespace is ignored. that was the problem. In this one case, in the old C compilers, white space mattered. hence the habit many of us have of putting ' = ' in our code. It's stylistic now, but back then it was a source of bugs in programs, i.e. '=-' was not the same meaning as ' = -' ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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