Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!noao!arizona!mike
From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: i++, i+=1, i=i+1
Message-ID: <7065@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 88 23:48:44 GMT
References: <3629@lanl.gov>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <3629@lanl.gov>, by jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):

> In other words, as far as functionality goes, '+=" doesn't do a damn
> thing. 
Well, actually it does.  I admit, this is a minor quibble, but
	x[rand()] += 1;
is not quite the same as
	x[rand()] = x[rand()] + 1;


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