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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assignment in test: OK?
Message-ID: <1335:Sep1901:50:0490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 01:50:04 GMT
References: <14316:Sep1511:00:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Sep17.220836.11501@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <18063@haddock.ima.isc.com>
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In article <18063@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> `:=' is almost as clumsy to type as that
>   stupid regexp notation `\( \)'.

I agree! That's why Q lets you use = in 99% of the cases where you'd use
it in C. You only have to resort to := when you want to use the assigned
value in an expression.

---Dan