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From: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: more about programming style
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 16:00:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 16:00:52 1985
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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        
> 
> Um, what about <<= & >>=?

Simple.  Replace <= with .le. and >= with .ge., < with .lt., > with .gt..
Then Shift can become < or >, and shift assignment can be <= or >=.
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					Tim Smith
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