Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: why p->member ? Message-ID: <6169@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: 16 Aug 88 15:27:00 GMT References: <16734@adm.ARPA> <474@sp7040.UUCP> <12937@mimsy.UUCP> <968@infbs.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@haddock.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 9 In article <968@infbs.UUCP> neitzel@infbs (Martin Neitzel) writes: >I for one would enjoy a corresponding assignment ... "node ->= next". It could be done, but it doesn't really fit well into the language. "->" isn't an binary operator in the usual sense, since its right operand isn't an expression. Similarly, you can't write "x -=" to mean "x = -x". Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint (Yes, the above can be written "x *= -1", but that's not the point.)