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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: := versus ==
Message-ID: <9903:Aug2103:51:3590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 90 03:51:35 GMT
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In article <+KB5WSF@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 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).

I know, you think @ should replace * everywhere. I just picked a symbol
at random; the alphabet is rather fluid, as Q uses category codes like
TeX. The last stage of design will be a symbol review.

> Since you're overloading ^ (with xor, no?),

No. ^ is gone in favor of xor, at least for the moment.

---Dan