Compound Assignments

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Apr7.185259.12709 at druid.uucp> darcy at druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>In article <1991Apr6.195901.25255 at dvorak.amd.com> Tim Olson writes:
>>| 	x *= y;
>>| 	x = x * y;
>>In the second example, "x" is not evaluated twice ...
>Huh?  Am I missing something ...

Yes, what you missed was that there were two examples given of compound
assignment, one involving a relatively complex l.h.s. and the other as
shown in the citation above.  The "second example" was the entire
citation, not the second line of the citation.