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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: = vs. == (was: Let's define our own NULL)
Message-ID: <8159@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 26 Jun 88 02:03:41 GMT
References: <160@navtech.uucp> <11326@steinmetz.ge.com> <8147@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4593@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4593@killer.UUCP> richardh@killer.UUCP (Richard Hargrove) writes:
>I think we need to start the "= vs. ==" discuusion up again. It's been
>dormant for about six weeks now... ;-)

Oh, my, we can't allow that..

How about <- for assignment, and -<- for what is usually called -=?
Then we could write statements such as
	p->q---<-q->r---<---s;
which is obviously quite readable :-|

Gee, why isn't C different from what it is?