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From: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: re: what should be added to C
Message-ID: <1006@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jun-86 18:40:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.1006
Posted: Fri Jun  6 18:40:56 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jun-86 06:23:07 EDT
References: <5565@alice.UUCP> <8200005@ztivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
Lines: 24
Summary: This is a joke

In article <8200005@ztivax.UUCP> david@ztivax.UUCP writes:
>PLEASE don't make := the assignment operator!!!!!
>[shift][:] [=]  is a pain, slow, it hurts my fingers :-) and
>it is error prone if you type fast.
>The assignment operator is easily the most common, and so it
>should be one character, unshifted.

Clearly "=" should remain the assignment operator.  We should replace all
testing with the extended syntax:

...
   switch (a:b) {
   case <: isgreater; break;
   case =: isequal; break;
   case >: isless; break;
   default: yell("this cannot happen!\n");
   }
...

I would have used (a?b) but it was already taken...  :-)
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