Re: Wish List

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From: aglew
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1986 03:23

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>As long as we're adding amenities to the language, I have a small wish...
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>All the binary operators in C have a "please modify" form:
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>	i = i + 3;   -->   i += 3;
>

While we're at it, why not make *ALL* the binary operators have a "please
modify" form: && and || do not  (at least not in any compiler I've used).

(This is one of my pet peeves: booleans are not given equality rights 
by languages, nor by architectures)

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