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From: schuller@DUTIAA.TUDELFT.NL (Schuller Schuller Oijen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: missing ->= operator
Message-ID: <9104291641.AA00534@dutiaa.tudelft.nl>
Date: 29 Apr 91 16:41:40 GMT
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Hi all,
recently I've been doing a lot of C pointer programming and I came upon
a missing feature in C. Suppose you have this struct called mygod :
	typedef struct mygod
	{
		int value;
		struct mygod *next;
	} mygod_struct
What you do quite often is : mygodptr = mygodptr->next;
Now C has all these wonderful operators : a += 7, g &= 0xf, etc, etc.
But the ->= operator is missing! You cannot do mygodptr ->= next; !
All of you who want to fill this gap, please react. Flames to /dev/null.
Bye! Hildo Biersma, schuller@dutiad.tudelft.nl