ambiguous why?

Eddie Wyatt edw at IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU
Wed Apr 6 05:33:38 AEST 1988


 >>	warning ambiguous assigment: assignment op taken
 >>	*a+=*b;
 > 
 > Your compiler scans "+=" as two tokens rather than one.  (Fixed in dpANS.)
 > This makes the anachronism "=*" (fixed in dpANS) visible.

  What a f***ing hack =* is then!!!!   If *= consists of two tokens
so should =* which obviously doesn't because if it did then
neither =* nor = * would be distinguishable by the parser.


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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw at ius1.cs.cmu.edu



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