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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: One more point regarding = and == (more flamage)
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Date: 28 Mar 91 19:57:05 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.184833.7914@sq.sq.com> dak@sq.sq.com
(David A Keldsen) writes:

>I find the idiomatic usage to be clearer, because it is easier to recognize.

This I suspect, is crucial to the debate: Idioms are a part of most
languages (are there any without them?), and they remain as idioms exactly
because they are used frequently and well understood as a unit. C idioms
are no exception.

oz
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