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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: New assignment operator ->= ?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 18:29:15 GMT
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In article <24810@ut-emx.UUCP>,
	mayoff@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Rob "The" Mayoff) writes:
)...
)Furthermore, the += operator, and its siblings give the idea of "incrementing"
)the variable, or scaling it, etc.  To me, incrementing a numerical variable
)seems analogous to advancing a pointer to a linked list along that list.
)...

Indeed.  Despite `->' not being a `true' binary operator, I consider the
absence of a `->=' operator one of C's oversights.
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