Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!lanl!jlg
From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
Message-ID: <3568@lanl.gov>
Date: 14 Sep 88 18:25:11 GMT
References: <13547@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <13547@mimsy.UUCP>, by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
> I do suggest, though, that no one use `i = i + 1' to increment.  If you
> dislike `++', use `i += 1'.  When you mean `add one to i', why not *say*
> it?

'i = i + 1' _does_ say it!!!  Any compiler which generates different code
for 'i = i + 1', 'i += 1', and 'i++' is a certifiably _stupid_ compiler.
Those three examples are semantically _identical_, their syntactic difference
is a textual convenience - at best.

J. Giles
Los Alamos