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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Wish List
Message-ID: <675@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 15:01:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 15:01:38 1986
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In article <307@galbp.UUCP> galbp!bing (Bing Bang) writes:
>i like the idea, i suggest changing the syntax to post operators:
>	foo = ~foo;   -->   foo~~; /* Means: please bitwise-complement foo */
>	foo = !foo;   -->   foo!!; /* Means: please logically-complement foo */
>this will avoid any clashes with the existing syntax.

It still can't be extended to the unary minus ("foo--" is taken), which in
my experience is the most common case anyway.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint