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From: cole@sas.UUCP (Tom Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Use of RMS from VAX C
Message-ID: <357@sas.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 15:53:59 GMT
References: <8802150715.AA23998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712
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the question was something like "why does this burfle?"

var1=&var2;

isn't it true that for compatibility with old implementations of C
=& and &= are the same?  You could completely solve the ambiguity
by using v1 = &var2; which makes = and & different tokens.