Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!mel From: mel@pegasus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Re: name=value and +n Message-ID: <1108@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 19:11:02 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.1108 Posted: Thu Mar 22 19:11:02 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 21:37:25 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 10 Come on guys. If you want + to mean set and - unset (rather than UNIX's - as a flag char.), you should go on and have name::=value (or is that name=::value - whatever ALGOL wants). After all, this is an assignment, not an assertion. If you are going for purity, go all the way. Wasn't there a presentation on the "new" standard at the Uniforum Conference? I was under the impression that we UNIX jocks won out over all you IBM'ers. Mel Haas , houxe!mel