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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Wish List
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Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 22:23:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 22:23:00 1986
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>As long as we're adding amenities to the language, I have a small wish...
>
>All the binary operators in C have a "please modify" form:
>
>	i = i + 3;   -->   i += 3;
>

While we're at it, why not make *ALL* the binary operators have a "please
modify" form: && and || do not  (at least not in any compiler I've used).

(This is one of my pet peeves: booleans are not given equality rights 
by languages, nor by architectures)