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From: c05_ta06@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Ta06)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: syntax for unary assignment operators (was Re: C history question)
Keywords: C design, XOR
Message-ID: <2562@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 06:52:05 GMT
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>>A somewhat consistent but fairly bizarre syntax would be
>>	x -=;
>The problem with this is that you would like it to have the same precedence
>as ++ and --.  ...

Why?  We don't expect the regular += to have the same precedence as +...
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