Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 12 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?