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From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: more about programming style
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 16:05:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 16:05:52 1985
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Reply-To: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Organization: LASSP, Cornell University
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> 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

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