Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: New assignment operator ->= ?
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.174611.13700@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <24707@ut-emx.UUCP> <680019@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 17:46:11 GMT

In article <680019@hpmwjaa.HP.COM> jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera) writes:
>> Also, can anyone (and I'm sure someone can) tell me how to contact the ANSI
>> C committee?
>
>Do you really think that they would listen?  

They would listen, but their response would probably be:

	(a) Come back in five years when ANSI C is due for revision.

	(b) You will get a much more favorable hearing then if you have
	implemented this feature and used it; there is no substitute for
	real experience when deciding whether a feature is practical and
	useful.  Almost everything actually adopted for ANSI C had been
	tried in a compiler first.

	(c) The need seems slight; you're going to have to make a very
	good case for it to justify changing an existing language.
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