Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Priorities of = and == again (c'mon you ANSI freaks)
Message-ID: <1988Jan25.231310.610@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto
References: <1171@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 25-Jan-88 23:13:09 EST


In article <1171@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Lately I asked why the priorities of = and == were not reversed:
...
>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 [any standard unix tools].

This is a bad idea.  Gratuitious changes are bad.  Things change enough
without changes just for the sake of change.