Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ist.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!ist!jmc
From: jmc@ist.UUCP (John Collins)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: How about &&= and ||= ?
Message-ID: <263@ist.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 18:15:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ist.263
Posted: Mon Dec 10 18:15:08 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:24:18 EST
References: <5700031@ea.UUCP> <25@daisy.UUCP>
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, England
Lines: 21

I've often thought that it would make sense, given a structure like

struct foo {
   struct  foo  *f_next;
   int  bar;
   ...etc...
}

and a

register  struct  foo  *bar;

to allow something like

	bar ->= f_next

meaning the same as

	bar = bar->f_next
-- 
John Collins calling courtesy of ist