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From: edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous why?
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Date: 5 Apr 88 19:33:38 GMT
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 >>	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.

  What a f***ing hack =* is then!!!!   If *= consists of two tokens
so should =* which obviously doesn't because if it did then
neither =* nor = * would be distinguishable by the parser.


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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu