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From: mayoff@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Rob "The" Mayoff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: New assignment operator ->= ?
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Date: 16 Feb 90 04:55:16 GMT
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It occurred to me some time ago that every binary operator in C (except the
logical ones - &&, ||)) except one have an analogous assignment operator:
  + has +=, - has -=, & has &=, etc.

Well, what about ->?  In tracing linked lists, I often do something like:
	p = head;
	while (*p->next)
	  p = p->next;
to get to the end, or something similar.  So why not
	p = head;
	while (*p->next)
	  p ->= next;

Anyone else agree?
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