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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Still more new operators (was: == vs =)
Message-ID: <9@obie.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 12:08:23 GMT
References: <626@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <214@oink.UUCP> <2681@mmintl.UUCP> <2411@haddock.ISC.COM>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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Summary: Add :=: to the list of odd operators

In article <2411@haddock.ISC.COM>, karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) writes:
> In article <9998@ccicpg.UUCP> nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:
> >While we are inventing other types of and syntax for assignment

Sperry (pre-Unisys days) used to have a Pascal-like compiler for some
of their cluster controllers that supported the :=: operator, which
swapped the two values surrounding it.  I do not know what it returned
as a value.  (i.e., `a :=: b' was equivalent to `swap(a, b)').

	Wes Peters
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