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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: indent bug
Message-ID: <9313@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 20:50:32 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.9313
Posted: Wed Nov 11 20:50:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 06:02:44 EST
References: <10266@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <10266@brl-adm.ARPA> eichelbe@nadc.arpa (J. Eichelberger) writes:
>	i=!i;

becomes

>	i != i;

Sorry about that.  This is a side effect of the `indent converts
old style assignment operators' `feature'.  I intend to remove this
`feature' someday---perhaps at about the same time as 4BSD cc stops
supporting it as well.  There is an argument against this: if the
compiler stops supporting it, perhaps indent should continue to
support it so that one can translate old code mechanically.  I
think I am going to ignore this argument: most of said old code
is in /usr/src, not in users' sources, at least per my own experience.

Consider this a warning:  The next BSD (apply usual disclaimers)
will probably not support =<op> operators.  That is, `i =+ 1' will
not compile, though `i += 1' will.
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