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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Priorities of = and == again (c'mon you ANSI freaks)
Summary: editing existing programs is probably not the biggest problem ...
Message-ID: <282@bernina.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 09:42:51 GMT
References: <1171@ark.cs.vu.nl> <7115@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <7115@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <1171@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> >Concluding, I'm not very impressed by the 'backward compatibility'
> >argument used by ANSI and by Doug Gwyn...
> 
> I take it you're volunteering to edit everyone's code to make the
> change you propose?

C'mon, replacing = by := (or <- or whatever) and == by = shouldn't be
all that difficult with all those UNIX tools (sed, awk, etc.).  The
real problem is re-educating all those C hackers  ;-) ;-)

Sorry, just couldn't resist.  Flames to /dev/null ...

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