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As long as we're adding amenities to the language, I have a small wish...

All the binary operators in C have a "please modify" form:

	i = i + 3;   -->   i += 3;

Why don't the unary operators have one as well? In particular, I sometimes
write loops in which a logical or bit variable oscillates on and off, using
either foo = ~foo or foo = !foo. Would it be more pleasing to the eye to
have:

	foo = ~foo;   -->   ~~foo; /* Means: please bitwise-complement foo */
	foo = !foo;   -->   !!foo; /* Means: please logically-complement foo */

I suppose foo!! and foo~~ should be provided too, for the sake of symmetry with
++ and --.

Of course, screwily written (macros without proper parenthesizing, for
example) existing programs would break. But fortunately there isn't
much extant C++ yet. Just a thought -

garry wiegand
garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu