Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: == vs =
Message-ID: <7273@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 18 Feb 88 11:10:28 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <891@micomvax.UUCP> <3295@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3295@psuvax1.psu.edu> schmidt@gondor.cs.psu.edu (David E. Schmidt) writes:
>Obviously the meaning of "=" can't be changed, but why couldn't the dpANS
>committee list the operator ":=" as a common extension, ...

Perhaps they don't want to tell lies.

Why are you guys wasting so much effort on a non-problem?
If you prefer Pascal, then use it!