old-style assignment operators

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Tue Apr 12 06:27:21 AEST 1988


> (P.S: Is dpANS finally going to get rid of this?  I hope so.)

X3J11 has removed the old-style assignments operators (e.g. =-) from the
language (and has also required the new-style operators to be single tokens).
However, code containing the old operators is still around, and it is just
as well if compilers continue to issue warnings about the matter.
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