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From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: One more point regarding = and == (more flamage)
Summary: Idiom is popular culture.  Syntax is eternal.
Keywords: The logic of language is in the syntax. -R. Carnap, 1937
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Date: 29 Mar 91 11:33:00 GMT
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In article <22167@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>This I suspect, is crucial to the debate: Idioms are a part of most
>languages (are there any without them?),

Yeah:  Fortran.  Just try stuttering a comma, sometime...

>and they remain as idioms exactly
>because they are used frequently and well understood as a unit. C idioms
>are no exception.

23-Skiddoo, eh?

				--Blair
				  "Hey-nonny-nonny and a hot-cha-cha, sirrah."

P.S.  Don't forget to grok the Summary: line, y'all.