Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: old-style assignment operators
Message-ID: <1988Apr11.202721.20786@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1303@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, <270@hotlr.ATT>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 88 20:27:21 GMT

> (P.S: Is dpANS finally going to get rid of this?  I hope so.)

X3J11 has removed the old-style assignments operators (e.g. =-) from the
language (and has also required the new-style operators to be single tokens).
However, code containing the old operators is still around, and it is just
as well if compilers continue to issue warnings about the matter.
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