Should "operator =" be made to return *this, by convention?

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From: Tom Ngo
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 04:42

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    C programmers are accustomed to expecting = to return the value
    assigned.  However, in a few classes--for example, String, Integer
    and Rational-- operator == returns void.  Is there a good reason
    for this?  Could they be made to return String&, Integer& and
    Rational& *this without causing problems?

    Apologies if this has been brought up before...

--Tom Ngo
  ngo@harvard.edu

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