New assignment operator ->= ?

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <24810 at ut-emx.UUCP>,
	mayoff at walt.cc.utexas.edu (Rob "The" Mayoff) writes:
)...
)Furthermore, the += operator, and its siblings give the idea of "incrementing"
)the variable, or scaling it, etc.  To me, incrementing a numerical variable
)seems analogous to advancing a pointer to a linked list along that list.
)...

Indeed.  Despite `->' not being a `true' binary operator, I consider the
absence of a `->=' operator one of C's oversights.
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