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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: := versus ==
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Date: 20 Aug 90 01:35:33 GMT
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In article <2538:Aug1914:03:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> Right now, Q accepts both *p/&x and p^/x@.

I dig the p^ bit, but x@ is a bit odd (@ is used in other contexts, such as
some assemblers, as an indirection operator).

Since you're overloading ^ (with xor, no?), why not just allow * and &
postfix? It's no worse. What about "p^-3"? Is that (p^)-3 or p^(-3).
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