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|    Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin    |
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|    18 Dec 18 10:55:08    |
      Alexander Koryagin:              AK> Actually C++ has a big two symbols operator group: ==,       AK> !=, +=, &=, ^=, |= etc       AK>       AK> We can write:       AK>       AK> If(a == b && b!= c) a = c;              It plain C.              But the equality and assignment confusion is easily amended       with the mathematical assignment operator := that is also       beautifully parallel with the compund operators:               a := b;        a += b;        a *= b;              ---        * Origin: *** nntp://fidonews.mine.nu *** Finland *** (2:221/6.0)    |
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