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!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!olson From: olson@lasspvax.UUCP (Todd Olson) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more about programming style Message-ID: <457@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 18:49:13 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.457 Posted: Sat Aug 10 18:49:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:10:26 EDT References: <11457@brl-tgr.ARPA> <68@ucbcad.UUCP> <1693@reed.UUCP> <441@myriasb.UUCP> <141@rpics.UUCP> Reply-To: olson@lasspvax.UUCP (Todd Olson) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 11 [] 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 -----------