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From: rwelch@diana.cair.du.edu (RANDY S WELCH)
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Subject: Re: structure assignment, why you would want to do it
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Date: 27 Aug 90 05:01:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To: demon@desire.wright.edu's message of 24 Aug 90 18:41:55 GMT

In article <1096.26d52ea3@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu writes:
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  Thanx!  Everyone wondered why I asked it.  If you are doing
  transformations/similar math stuff or (like I'm doing) vehicle position updates
  for a military simulation, you'd like to be able to say

   pres_location += current_move;

C++ lets you do things like this with structures.  Granted you have to
define the +=, etc operation for it...

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