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Re: New quotes for Tue Jul 9

drmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 9 02:52:04 1991

Re: the code bug

That's a big reason why some languages use two characters for
assignment, and just '=' for equality testing.

You hardly ever do:

	if (a := b) 

accidentaly, and 

	a = b;

is pretty easy to report as suspect.  Personally, I wish standard C
would do this.

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