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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <10027@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 16:59:05 GMT
References: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU> <495@xyzzy.UUCP> <9930@mimsy.UUCP> <6996@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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> In article <4735@pyr.gatech.EDU> roy@pyr.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi) writes:
> >While they're at it, why don't they fix up operator precedence and the
> >stupid "=" versus "==" typo in if's.
> 

It isn't a typo.  I use it all the time to assign a value to a variable,
then test the result.  I find it seriously irritating that Turbo C
crabs about the construction.  Like everyone else, I have written "="
when I meant "==" ... just as I have made many bonehead errors in
writing code.  But I don't blame the compiler, or the langauge, when
I do.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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