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From: andrew@alice.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PRECEDENT FOR USE OF =
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Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 10:38:47 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 12 10:38:47 1986
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I don't understand. If you personally have a problem handling the token '=',
don't lay it on everyone else. Getting lint to complain about it is fine by me;
I don't use lint. However, the poor sods who do might (should) object.
There is nothing wrong with this sort of code:
	char *s, *getword();

	while(s = getword()){
		...
	}
The more noise lint puts out, the less use it is.
It seems to me you can solve YOUR problems by a preprocessor sed script.
Modifying the C language to avoid this sed step to solve learning
disabilities for a small set of users seems incorrect.