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Why = = (and not just =)

Duncan Booth duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk
Mon Oct 20 04:48:51 EDT 2003 
"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in 
news:vp608amhe0jh1d at news.supernews.com:

> Frankly, I'd rather have the assignment operator be something
> like a left arrow: "<-" perhaps. I think it makes more sense,
> and it avoids the confusion between one = and two.

This would be just as ambiguous as making both assignment and comparison 
use '='. Compare:

    a<-b<-c

    a=b=c


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?
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