Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!broe
From: broe@ur-tut.UUCP (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: == vs =
Message-ID: <910@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 16:24:26 GMT
References: <11523@brl-adm.ARPA> <1202@eneevax.UUCP> <8836@ism780c.UUCP>
Reply-To: broe@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Eric Brown)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <8836@ism780c.UUCP> marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) writes:
>My conclusion: if = had been chosen for the equality operator and any two
>character symbol (e.g. ::) had been chosen for the assignment operator, the
>cost of developing a program in C would be less even though the character
>count in a program might be 0.5% greater.
>

If you think :: for equality would reduce development cost, why don't you:

#define ::    ==

			Eric.