Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!norman From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more about programming style Message-ID: <464@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 16:05:52 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.464 Posted: Tue Aug 13 16:05:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 15:20:13 EDT References: <11457@brl-tgr.ARPA> <68@ucbcad.UUCP> Reply-To: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 20 Summary: > What chance is there of having assignment denoted by := in the standard? > (None, right? To much code is written with = already. And if I really > insist I could use the preprocessor. None the less ... ) > The reason I would like this is then ALL assignments ( +=, |=, etc) would > be two characters long (consistancy!!). Among other things this would minimize > the = vs == type errors. > > Todd Olson I think there is about as much chance of this as of the UNIX community switching to MODULA-2. It just makes too much sense. -- Norman Ramsey ARPA: norman@lasspvax -- or -- norman%lasspvax@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu UUCP: {ihnp4,allegra,...}!cornell!lasspvax!norman BITNET: (in desperation only) ZSYJARTJ at CORNELLA US Mail: Dept Physics, Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Telephone: (607)-256-3944 (work) (607)-272-7750 (home)