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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Bug in indent.
Message-ID: <13415@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Jul 90 01:50:03 GMT
References: <2125@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <5042@labtam.oz>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <5042@labtam.oz> iand@labtam.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
-dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White) writes:
->	On exami
nation, this is because the x=!x line has been rewritten as:
->		x != x;
-This sounds like the old C syntax problem that most C compilers *warn*
-about still.

No, "x=!x" has never been ambiguous; != is not an assignment operator.
If "indent" is rewriting "=!" as " != ", then "indent" has a bug.