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The one major fix for C (Re: PL/I Grammar)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1989 15:20
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Just change = to :=. Then ANY use of = by itself is a typo, and will
be flagged as such. Everyone is happy.

(well, I'd still like to make indirection a postfix uparrow...)
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Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: The one major fix for C (Re: PL/I Grammar)
Keywords: PL/I, C, grammar, parser
Message-ID: <6593@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 19 Oct 89 15:20:20 GMT
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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