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From: mel@pegasus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: name=value and +n
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 19:11:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 19:11:02 1984
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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