Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous why?
Message-ID: <3326@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 88 15:58:40 GMT
References: <1303@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1303@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>	warning ambiguous assigment: assignment op taken
>	*a+=*b;

Your compiler scans "+=" as two tokens rather than one.  (Fixed in dpANS.)
This makes the anachronism "=*" (fixed in dpANS) visible.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint