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Subject: obsolete operators in C
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 10:50:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 10:50:42 1983
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Organization: ABI - ED&D, Holmdel, NJ
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For you C history bufs:

Back in the old days of the V6 PDP 11 C compiler there were two partially
implemented operators; the "min" and the "max" operators. Lexically the "max"
operator was "/\" and the "min" operator was "\/". So you could write
expressions like:

	a = a /\ 10; to give you the maximum of a or 10.

The only problem was that even though the operators existed the code
generators table were not defined.

It is intersting to speculate why the operators died prematurely. They died
in the V7 release of the compiler.