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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The need for D-scussion (was Re: D Wishlist)
Message-ID: <7460@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Mar 88 01:19:44 GMT
References: <12176@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar11.215238.976@utzoo.uucp> <3732@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <7451@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6128@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6128@bellcore.bellcore.com> sjs@spectral.UUCP (Stan Switzer) writes:
>How about:
>	q = a/b, r = a%b;

Nice try, but no cigar.  It works fine for this simple example, but
what if a and b are replaced by more complex expressions, perhaps
involving side-effects?  This is the same situation that justifies
the presence of the op= operators in the language.