Annoyingly necessary spaces

[Chris Torek]

>In article <11812 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba at garnet.berkeley.edu
(Obnoxious Math Grad Student) asks whether `=op' operators are
>>just a cloying Berkeleyism?

In article <8227 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>Yes.  AT&T C compilers stopped supporting the =op form years ago.

4BSD stopped (a) year ago.  They are gone in 4.3BSD-tahoe.  Those programs
that used them (Berkeley Pascal, struct) have been fixed.

Old-fashioned initialisations are gone too.  No more erroneous recovery
(and corresponding error cascade) from

	int f(x) imt x; { ...
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