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From: schmidt@gondor.cs.psu.edu (David E. Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: == vs =
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Date: 5 Feb 88 18:50:06 GMT
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>>My conclusion: if = had been chosen for the equality operator and any two
>>character symbol (e.g. ::) had been chosen for the assignment operator, 
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^
>If you think :: for equality would reduce development cost, why don't you:
                     ^^^^^^^^
>
>#define ::    ==

Because the C preprocessor would puke on it?