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From: maart@ark.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Priorities of = and == again (c'mon you ANSI freaks)
Message-ID: <1171@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Jan 88 22:44:18 GMT
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Posted: Fri Jan 15 17:44:18 1988

Lately I asked why the priorities of = and == were not reversed:

	while ((c = getchar()) == ' ')

is used much more than

	while (c = getchar() == ' ')
.
I argued that ONLY programs containing code of the second form,
need to be rewritten using parentheses; occurrences of those
expressions are not hard to find using shelltools (SUN, yeah).
Concluding, I'm not very impressed by the 'backward compatibility'
argument used by ANSI and by Doug Gwyn, who responded to my previous
article (thanks, Doug).
Any further thoughts on this ?
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