the =+ operator

2001-08-10 Thread Rob
My first post on hackers, so please don't flame me too bad :) I think that only an old hacker can give me the answer :) I've searched far and wide on search engines to find out what the =+ operator does, to no avail. I'm porting some old code and found it. I made a test progr

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-10 Thread Les Biffle
> My first post on hackers, so please don't flame me too bad :) I think > that only an old hacker can give me the answer :) > > I've searched far and wide on search engines to find out what the =+ > operator does, to no avail. I'm porting some old code and found

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-10 Thread Mike Smith
post on hackers, so please don't flame me too bad :) I think > that only an old hacker can give me the answer :) > > I've searched far and wide on search engines to find out what the =+ > operator does, to no avail. I'm porting some old code and found it. I > made

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-10 Thread
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:46:16AM -0700, Les Biffle wrote: > ... There > has never been an operator =+, even checking back to the BCPL days. Nope, check "anachronisms" in K&R, at least the 1978 edition p 212: "Earlier versions of C used the form =op instead of op= for assignment operations. T

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-10 Thread Harti Brandt
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Rob wrote: R>My first post on hackers, so please don't flame me too bad :) I think R>that only an old hacker can give me the answer :) R> R>I've searched far and wide on search engines to find out what the =+ R>operator does, to no avail. I'm porting some old code and found

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:18:57PM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > Since when does any self-respecting compiler dictate object format? It's > brain-damage for a compiler to screw with the object format--so much for If you have ever programmed in Ada, you would understand. Since I as

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-12 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
On 2001.08.12 15:02 David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:18:57PM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > > > Since when does any self-respecting compiler dictate object format? > It's > > brain-damage for a compiler to screw with the object format--so much > for > > If you have

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-13 Thread Terry Lambert
John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > > Prototypes are an overwhelmingly "Good Thing(tm)" > > > as behind-your-back implicit parameter conversion is death to serious > > > numerical work. At least now, some control can be exercised over > > parameter > > > conversions . . . > > > > Who ever said an

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-13 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jan Knepper wrote: > I just checked on this "=+" and "=-" with the guy that wrote the first > native C++ compiler and he does not recall it at first being that way... of course not. It had changed long before C++. You have to go back to 1976 to find this. > I have been prog

Re: the =+ operator

2001-08-13 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:38:27PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jan Knepper wrote: > > > I just checked on this "=+" and "=-" with the guy that wrote the first > > native C++ compiler and he does not recall it at first being that way... > > of course not. It had changed